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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.60.30

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

3.60.30

chatraṃ śataśalākaṃ ca divyamālyopaśobhitam
bhagnadaṇḍam idaṃ kasya bhūmau saumya nipātitam

“This parasol with a hundred ribs, graced with a heavenly garland, its staff broken and cast down upon the ground — whose is it, gentle one?”

Words: chatraṃ — parasol; śataśalākaṃ — with a hundred ribs; ca — and; divyamālyopaśobhitam — graced with a heavenly garland; bhagnadaṇḍam — with broken staff; idaṃ — this; kasya — whose; bhūmau — on the ground; saumya — O gentle one; nipātitam — cast down

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.