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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.42

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.

3.50.42

tatas tu sā cārudatī śucismitā vinākṛtā bandhujanena maithilī
apaśyatī rāghavalakṣmaṇāv ubhau vivarṇavaktrā bhayabhārapīḍitā

Then Maithilī, with lovely teeth and a pure smile, severed from her kinfolk and seeing neither Rāghava nor Lakṣmaṇa, grew pale of face, crushed by the weight of fear.

Words: tatas — then; tu — and; sā — she; cārudatī — with lovely teeth; śucismitā — with a pure smile; vinākṛtā — severed, separated; bandhujanena — from her kinfolk; maithilī — Maithilī; apaśyatī — not seeing; rāghavalakṣmaṇāv — Rāghava and Lakṣmaṇa; ubhau — both; vivarṇavaktrā — pale of face; bhayabhārapīḍitā — crushed by the weight of fear

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.