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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.41
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.
3.50.41
avekṣamāṇāṃ bahuṣo vaidehīṃ dharaṇītalam
sa tām ākulakeśāntāṃ vipramṛṣṭaviśeṣakām
jahārātmavināśāya daśagrīvo manasvinām
As Vaidehī gazed again and again toward the ground, the ten-necked one bore off that spirited woman, her hair-locks disheveled and her brow-mark smeared away, to his own destruction.
Words: avekṣamāṇāṃ — gazing at; bahuṣo — again and again; vaidehīṃ — Vaidehī; dharaṇītalam — toward the ground; sa — he; tām — her; ākulakeśāntāṃ — with hair-locks disheveled; vipramṛṣṭaviśeṣakām — with brow-mark smeared away; jahārātmavināśāya — bore off, to his own destruction; daśagrīvo — the ten-necked one; manasvinām — the spirited (woman; text manasvinām, uncertain)
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.