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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.63.10
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 63: Discovery of the wounded Jaṭāyu. Rāma mistakes him for Sītā’s killer, Jaṭāyu names Rāvaṇa and explains the wreckage, the brothers embrace him
In the sequence: Rāma sees the great blood-covered bird lying on the ground and wrongly assumes it is a rākṣasa in vulture form that has eaten Sītā
3.63.10
dadarśa patitaṃ bhūmau kṣatajārdraṃ jaṭāyuṣam
taṃ dṛṣṭvā giriśṛṅgābhaṃ rāmo lakṣmaṇam abravīt
anena sītā vaidehī bhakṣitā nātra saṃśayaḥ
—Jaṭāyu, wet with blood, fallen upon the ground, he beheld. Seeing him, like a mountain-crest, Rāma said to Lakṣmaṇa: “By this creature has Sītā Vaidehī been devoured — there is no doubt of it.
Words: dadarśa — he beheld, saw; patitaṃ — fallen; bhūmau — on the ground; kṣatajārdraṃ — wet with blood; jaṭāyuṣam — Jaṭāyu; taṃ — him; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; giriśṛṅgābhaṃ — like a mountain-crest; rāmo — Rāma; lakṣmaṇam — to Lakṣmaṇa; abravīt — said; anena — by this (creature); sītā — Sītā; vaidehī — Vaidehī; bhakṣitā — devoured; nātra — not here, not in this; saṃśayaḥ — doubt
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.