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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.52.6
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 passes Pampā and continues across forests, rivers, and mountains toward Laṅkā
3.52.6
tāṃ jahāra susaṃhṛṣṭo rāvaṇo mṛtyum ātmanaḥ
utsaṅgenaiva bhujagīṃ tīkṣṇadaṃṣṭrāṃ mahāviṣām
Greatly delighted, Rāvaṇa bore her off—his own death—as one might carry in his lap a sharp-fanged, deadly-venomed she-serpent.
Words: tāṃ — her; jahāra — bore off; susaṃhṛṣṭo — greatly delighted; rāvaṇo — Rāvaṇa; mṛtyum — death; ātmanaḥ — of himself, his own; utsaṅgenaiva — as if in his lap; bhujagīṃ — a she-serpent; tīkṣṇadaṃṣṭrāṃ — sharp-fanged; mahāviṣām — deadly-venomed
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.