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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.60.28
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 60: Traces of Sītā’s abduction. Flowers, footprints, blood and chariot wreckage suggest a struggle, Rāma’s uncertainty turns to threats against the whole world
In the sequence: he examines a broken jeweled bow, shattered armor, a broken parasol, dead goblin-faced draft animals, the wrecked chariot, and scattered arrows, asking who owned them
3.60.28
muktāmaṇicitaṃ cedaṃ tapanīyavibhūṣitam
dharaṇyāṃ patitaṃ saumya kasya bhagnaṃ mahad dhanuḥ
“And this great bow, inlaid with pearls and gems and adorned with gold, fallen broken upon the ground — whose is it, gentle one?”
Words: muktāmaṇicitaṃ — inlaid with pearls and gems; cedaṃ — and this; tapanīyavibhūṣitam — adorned with gold; dharaṇyāṃ — upon the ground; patitaṃ — fallen; saumya — O gentle one; kasya — whose; bhagnaṃ — broken; mahad — great; dhanuḥ — bow
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.