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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.52.10

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: he crosses the ocean as cāraṇas and siddhas declare that this act will bring his end

3.52.10

antarikṣagatā vācaḥ sasṛjuś cāraṇās tadā
etad anto daśagrīva iti siddhās tadābruvan

Then the Cāraṇas, moving in the sky, sent forth words, and the Siddhas said, 'This is your end, ten-necked one!'

Words: antarikṣagatā — moving in the sky; vācaḥ — words; sasṛjuś — sent forth, uttered; cāraṇās — the Cāraṇas (celestial bards); tadā — then; etad — this; anto — (is your) end; daśagrīva — O ten-necked one; iti — thus; siddhās — the Siddhas; tadābruvan — then said

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.