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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.35

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

3.50.35

jalaprapātāsramukhāḥ śṛṅgair ucchritabāhavaḥ
sītāyāṃ hriyamāṇāyāṃ vikrośantīva parvatāḥ

With waterfalls for tear-streaked faces and peaks upraised like arms, the mountains seemed to cry out as Sītā was carried away.

Words: jalaprapātāsramukhāḥ — with waterfalls as tear-streaked faces; śṛṅgair — with peaks; ucchritabāhavaḥ — with upraised arms; sītāyāṃ — when Sītā (loc. abs.); hriyamāṇāyāṃ — being carried off (loc. abs.); vikrośantīva — seemed to cry out; parvatāḥ — the mountains

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.