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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.51.25

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.

3.51.25

tathā bhṛśārtāṃ bahu caiva bhāṣiṇīṃ vilalāpa pūrvaṃ karuṇaṃ ca bhāminīm
jahāra pāpas taruṇīṃ viveṣṭatīṃ nṛpātmajām āgatagātravepathum

So the sinful one bore off that beautiful young woman—sorely afflicted, speaking much, who had lamented piteously before, the king's daughter, writhing and twisting, her limbs seized with trembling.

Words: tathā — so, thus; bhṛśārtāṃ — sorely afflicted; bahu — much; caiva — and; bhāṣiṇīṃ — speaking; vilalāpa — who had lamented; pūrvaṃ — before; karuṇaṃ — piteously; ca — and; bhāminīm — the beautiful woman; jahāra — bore off, carried away; pāpas — the sinful one; taruṇīṃ — the young woman; viveṣṭatīṃ — writhing, twisting; nṛpātmajām — the king's daughter; āgatagātravepathum — her limbs seized with trembling

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.