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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.29

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

3.50.29

tāṃ maholkām ivākāśe dīpyamānāṃ svatejasā
jahārākāśam āviśya sītāṃ vaiśravaṇānujaḥ

Kubera's younger brother, rising into the sky, bore off Sītā, blazing with her own splendour like a great meteor in the heavens.

Words: tāṃ — her; maholkām — a great meteor; ivākāśe — as in the sky; dīpyamānāṃ — blazing, shining; svatejasā — with her own splendour; jahārākāśam — bore off, into the sky; āviśya — having entered; sītāṃ — Sītā; vaiśravaṇānujaḥ — the younger brother of Vaiśravaṇa (Kubera)

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.