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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.33

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: trees, ponds, mountains, and the dimmed sun are described as sharing her distress, while animals run after her shadow

3.50.33

nalinyo dhvastakamalās trastamīnajale carāḥ
sakhīm iva gatotsāhāṃ śocantīva sma maithilīm

The lotus-ponds, their lotuses destroyed, their fish and water-creatures frightened, seemed to grieve for Maithilī as for a friend bereft of spirit.

Words: nalinyo — the lotus-ponds; dhvastakamalās — with lotuses destroyed; trastamīnajale — with frightened fish in the water; carāḥ — (their) moving creatures; sakhīm — a friend; iva — like; gatotsāhāṃ — bereft of spirit; śocantīva — seemed to grieve; sma — (past particle); maithilīm — for Maithilī

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.