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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.53.10

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 53: Rāvaṇa’s offer to Sītā. He displays his palace, promises wealth and authority over his wives, claims rescue is impossible and bows at her feet

In the sequence: he forcibly leads her through his residence to display its mansions, jeweled pillars, golden stairs, ivory and silver windows, decorated floors, and lotus pools

3.53.10

dāntakā rājatāś caiva gavākṣāḥ priyadarśanāḥ
hemajālāvṛtāś cāsaṃs tatra prāsādapaṅktayaḥ

There the rows of palaces had lovely lattice-windows of ivory and of silver, veiled with golden network.

Words: dāntakā — of ivory; rājatāś — of silver; caiva — and; gavākṣāḥ — lattice-windows; priyadarśanāḥ — lovely to behold; hemajālāvṛtāś — veiled with golden network; cāsaṃs — and were; tatra — there; prāsādapaṅktayaḥ — the rows of palaces

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.