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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.38

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

3.50.38

iti sarvāṇi bhūtāni gaṇaśaḥ paryadevayan
vitrastakā dīnamukhā rurudur mṛgapotakāḥ

Thus all beings lamented in throngs; terrified and woeful-faced, the young fawns wept.

Words: iti — thus; sarvāṇi — all; bhūtāni — beings; gaṇaśaḥ — in throngs, group by group; paryadevayan — lamented, wailed; vitrastakā — terrified; dīnamukhā — with woeful faces; rurudur — wept; mṛgapotakāḥ — the young fawns

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.