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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.52.13

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

3.52.13

tatra tām asitāpāṅgīṃ śokamohaparāyaṇām
nidadhe rāvaṇaḥ sītāṃ mayo māyām ivāsurīm

There Rāvaṇa set down that dark-cornered-eyed Sītā, sunk in grief and bewilderment, as the demon Maya once hid away his demonic magic.

Words: tatra — there; tām — her; asitāpāṅgīṃ — with dark eye-corners; śokamohaparāyaṇām — sunk in grief and bewilderment; nidadhe — set down, placed; rāvaṇaḥ — Rāvaṇa; sītāṃ — Sītā; mayo — Maya (the demon architect); māyām — magic, illusion; ivāsurīm — as (his) demonic (magic)

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.