← 3.60.51 · Araṇya Kāṇḍa 60: Traces of Sītā’s abduction
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.60.52
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: his anger expands beyond the unknown offender: he threatens to block the heavens with arrows, destroy mountains and waters, and overturn the worlds unless Sītā is restored unharmed.
3.60.52
pureva me cārudatīm aninditāṃ diśanti sītāṃ yadi nādya maithilīm
sadevagandharvamanuṣya pannagaṃ jagat saśailaṃ parivartayāmy aham
“If they do not restore to me today, as before, Sītā of lovely teeth and blameless — Maithilī — then I shall overturn the whole world with its gods, gandharvas, men, serpents, and mountains.”
Words: pureva — as before; me — to me; cārudatīm — of lovely teeth; aninditāṃ — blameless, faultless; diśanti — they grant, restore; sītāṃ — Sītā; yadi — if; nādya — not today; maithilīm — Maithilī; sadevagandharvamanuṣya — together with gods, gandharvas and men; pannagaṃ — serpents; jagat — the world; saśailaṃ — together with its mountains; parivartayāmy — I shall overturn; aham — I
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.