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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.19

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 50: Rāvaṇa seizes Sītā again. He tears her from the trees and resumes the flight, flowers and ornaments fall while the landscape shares her distress

In the sequence: her yellow silk and ornaments shine against his dark body during the flight

3.50.19

ruditaṃ vyapamṛṣṭāstraṃ candravat priyadarśanam
sunāsaṃ cārutāmrauṣṭham ākāṣe hāṭakaprabham

Her tear-streaked, weeping face, moon-like and lovely to behold, with fair nose and fair coppery lips, gleamed gold-bright in the sky.

Words: ruditaṃ — weeping, tearful; vyapamṛṣṭāstraṃ — with tears wiped away (text āstraṃ, uncertain); candravat — moon-like; priyadarśanam — lovely to behold; sunāsaṃ — with a fair nose; cārutāmrauṣṭham — with lovely coppery lips; ākāṣe — in the sky (text ākāṣe for ākāśe); hāṭakaprabham — gold-bright

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.