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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.20

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

3.50.20

rākṣasendrasamādhūtaṃ tasyās tad vacanaṃ śubham
śuśubhe na vinā rāmaṃ divā candra ivoditaḥ

That fair face of hers, shaken by the lord of rākṣasas, did not shine without Rāma, like the moon risen in daytime.

Words: rākṣasendrasamādhūtaṃ — shaken by the lord of rākṣasas; tasyās — her; tad — that; vacanaṃ — face (text vacanaṃ; sense: vadana, face); śubham — fair, lovely; śuśubhe — shone; na — not; vinā — without; rāmaṃ — Rāma; divā — by day; candra — the moon; ivoditaḥ — as risen

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.