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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.52.20

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 sends them to occupy the devastated Janasthāna, where Khara's force was destroyed

3.52.20

tatroṣyatāṃ janasthāne śūnye nihatarākṣase
pauruṣaṃ balam āśritya trāsam utsṛjya dūrataḥ

'Dwell there in Janasthāna, now empty with its rākṣasas slain, relying on your manly strength and casting fear far away.'

Words: tatroṣyatāṃ — let (you) dwell there; janasthāne — in Janasthāna; śūnye — empty; nihatarākṣase — its rākṣasas slain; pauruṣaṃ — manly; balam — strength; āśritya — relying on; trāsam — fear; utsṛjya — having cast off; dūrataḥ — far away

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.