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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.60.29

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

3.60.29

taruṇādityasaṃkāśaṃ vaidūryagulikācitam
viśīrṇaṃ patitaṃ bhūmau kavacaṃ kasya kāñcanam

“Bright as the rising sun, studded with beads of beryl, shattered and fallen on the ground — whose is this golden armour?”

Words: taruṇādityasaṃkāśaṃ — bright as the young (rising) sun; vaidūryagulikācitam — studded with beads of beryl; viśīrṇaṃ — shattered; patitaṃ — fallen; bhūmau — on the ground; kavacaṃ — armour, cuirass; kasya — whose; kāñcanam — golden

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.