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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.52.12

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: entering Laṅkā, he takes Sītā into his inner apartments

3.52.12

so 'bhigamya purīṃ laṅkāṃ suvibhaktamahāpathām
saṃrūḍhakakṣyā bahulaṃ svam antaḥpuram āviśat

Having reached the city of Laṅkā with its well-laid great avenues, he entered his own inner apartments with their many dense enclosures.

Words: so — he; 'bhigamya — having reached; purīṃ — the city; laṅkāṃ — Laṅkā; suvibhaktamahāpathām — with well-laid great avenues; saṃrūḍhakakṣyā — with dense-grown enclosures; bahulaṃ — abounding, manifold; svam — his own; antaḥpuram — inner apartments; āviśat — entered

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.