Araṇya Kāṇḍa 52: Sītā drops her ornaments · 3.52.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.52.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 52: Sītā drops her ornaments. She drops her silk and ornaments among five monkeys, Rāvaṇa confines her in Laṅkā and sends agents to Janasthāna

In the sequence: Sītā sees five monkeys on a mountain peak

3.52.1

hriyamāṇā tu vaidehī kaṃ cin nātham apaśyatī
dadarśa giriśṛṅgasthān pañcavānarapuṃgavān

But Vaidehī, being carried off and seeing no protector, beheld five bull-monkeys perched on a mountain peak.

Words: hriyamāṇā — being carried off; tu — but; vaidehī — Vaidehī; kaṃ — any; cin — (any) at all; nātham — protector; apaśyatī — not seeing; dadarśa — beheld; giriśṛṅgasthān — perched on a mountain peak; pañcavānarapuṃgavān — five bull-monkeys

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.