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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.26

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

3.50.26

abhyavartata puṣpāṇāṃ dhārā vaiśravaṇānujam
nakṣatramālāvimalā meruṃ nagam ivottamam

The stream of flowers, spotless as a garland of stars, fell upon Kubera's younger brother as upon Meru, the best of mountains.

Words: abhyavartata — turned toward, fell upon; puṣpāṇāṃ — of flowers; dhārā — a stream, torrent; vaiśravaṇānujam — the younger brother of Vaiśravaṇa (Kubera); nakṣatramālāvimalā — spotless as a garland of stars; meruṃ — Meru; nagam — mountain; ivottamam — as the best

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.