← 3.51.23 · Araṇya Kāṇḍa 51: Sītā condemns the deception · 3.51.25 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.51.24

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 51: Sītā condemns the deception. She connects the golden deer with her abduction, challenges Rāvaṇa to face the brothers and warns him to release her

In the sequence: she recalls Rāma's destruction of the fourteen thousand and insists that he can kill her abductor too → Rāvaṇa continues carrying her as she struggles and laments.

3.51.24

etac cānyac ca paruṣaṃ vaidehī rāvaṇāṅkagā
bhayaśokasamāviṣṭā karuṇaṃ vilalāpa ha

This and much else harsh Vaidehī, upon Rāvaṇa's lap, filled with fear and grief, piteously lamented.

Words: etac — this; cānyac — and other; ca — and; paruṣaṃ — harsh (words); vaidehī — Vaidehī; rāvaṇāṅkagā — resting on Rāvaṇa's lap; bhayaśokasamāviṣṭā — filled with fear and grief; karuṇaṃ — piteously; vilalāpa — lamented; ha — indeed

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.