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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.37

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

3.50.37

nāsti dharmaḥ kutaḥ satyaṃ nārjavaṃ nānṛśaṃsatā
yatra rāmasya vaidehīṃ bhāryāṃ harati rāvaṇaḥ

'There is no dharma; whence then truth? no uprightness, no mercy—when Rāvaṇa carries off Vaidehī, the wife of Rāma!'

Words: nāsti — there is not; dharmaḥ — dharma, righteousness; kutaḥ — whence, how then; satyaṃ — truth; nārjavaṃ — no uprightness; nānṛśaṃsatā — no mercy, no non-cruelty; yatra — when, wherein; rāmasya — of Rāma; vaidehīṃ — Vaidehī; bhāryāṃ — wife; harati — carries off; rāvaṇaḥ — Rāvaṇa

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.