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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.24

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: flowers scatter from her hair; an anklet, other ornaments, and a necklace fall toward the ground

3.50.24

uttamāṅgacyutā tasyāḥ puṣpavṛṣṭiḥ samantataḥ
sītāyā hriyamāṇāyāḥ papāta dharaṇītale

A shower of flowers fallen from Sītā's head scattered on every side and dropped to the ground as she was carried off.

Words: uttamāṅgacyutā — fallen from the head; tasyāḥ — her; puṣpavṛṣṭiḥ — shower of flowers; samantataḥ — on every side; sītāyā — of Sītā; hriyamāṇāyāḥ — being carried off; papāta — fell; dharaṇītale — to the surface of the earth

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.