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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.30

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

3.50.30

tasyās tāny agnivarṇāni bhūṣaṇāni mahītale
saghoṣāṇy avakīryanta kṣīṇās tārā ivāmbarāt

Those fire-colored ornaments of hers scattered upon the ground with a jingling sound, like fading stars from the sky.

Words: tasyās — her; tāny — those; agnivarṇāni — fire-colored; bhūṣaṇāni — ornaments; mahītale — on the earth's surface; saghoṣāṇy — with a jingling sound; avakīryanta — were scattered; kṣīṇās — waning, fading; tārā — stars; ivāmbarāt — as from the sky

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.