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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.50.7

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: Rāvaṇa advances as she clings to the trees, orders her to let go, and seizes her by the hair

3.50.7

tāṃ latām iva veṣṭantīm āliṅgantīṃ mahādrumān
muñca muñceti bahuśaḥ pravadan rākṣasādhipaḥ

As she twined like a creeper and embraced the great trees, the lord of rākṣasas cried again and again, 'Let go, let go!'

Words: tāṃ — her; latām — a creeper; iva — like; veṣṭantīm — twining, coiling; āliṅgantīṃ — embracing; mahādrumān — the great trees; muñca — let go, release; muñceti — 'let go!' thus; bahuśaḥ — repeatedly, many times; pravadan — saying, crying out; rākṣasādhipaḥ — the lord of rākṣasas

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.