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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.40

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: still crying and looking downward, Sītā is carried farther away, unable to see either brother.

3.50.40

vikrośantīṃ dṛḍhaṃ sītāṃ dṛṣṭvā duḥkhaṃ tathā gatām
tāṃ tu lakṣmaṇa rāmeti krośantīṃ madhurasvarām

Seeing Sītā crying out loudly, fallen into such misery, as she cried 'Lakṣmaṇa! Rāma!' in a sweet voice—

Words: vikrośantīṃ — crying out; dṛḍhaṃ — loudly, hard; sītāṃ — Sītā; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; duḥkhaṃ — misery; tathā — such, thus; gatām — fallen into; tāṃ — her; tu — indeed; lakṣmaṇa — 'Lakṣmaṇa...; rāmeti — ...Rāma!' thus; krośantīṃ — crying out; madhurasvarām — in a sweet voice

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.