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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.60.32
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
3.60.32
dīptapāvakasaṃkāśo dyutimān samaradhvajaḥ
apaviddhaś ca bhagnaś ca kasya sāṃgrāmiko rathaḥ
“Resembling blazing fire, radiant, with its battle-standard — flung down and broken — whose war-chariot is this?”
Words: dīptapāvakasaṃkāśo — resembling blazing fire; dyutimān — radiant, gleaming; samaradhvajaḥ — with a battle-standard; apaviddhaś — flung down; ca — and; bhagnaś — broken; ca — and; kasya — whose; sāṃgrāmiko — of war, martial; rathaḥ — chariot
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.