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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.39

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

3.50.39

udvīkṣyodvīkṣya nayanair āsrapātāvilekṣaṇāḥ
supravepitagātrāś ca babhūvur vanadevatāḥ

Gazing up again and again with their eyes, their glances blurred by falling tears and their bodies trembling, so became the forest deities.

Words: udvīkṣyodvīkṣya — gazing up again and again; nayanair — with their eyes; āsrapātāvilekṣaṇāḥ — with glances blurred by falling tears; supravepitagātrāś — with bodies violently trembling; ca — and; babhūvur — became; vanadevatāḥ — the forest deities

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.