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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.63.14
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: Jaṭāyu speaks through the blood in his mouth and tells him that Rāvaṇa took Sītā and dealt him his fatal wounds
3.63.14
yām oṣadhim ivāyuṣmann anveṣasi mahāvane
sā devī mama ca prāṇā rāvaṇenobhayaṃ hṛtam
“She whom, O long-lived one, you seek in the great forest as though a life-giving herb — that lady and my life-breaths, both, have been carried off by Rāvaṇa.
Words: yām — whom; oṣadhim — herb; ivāyuṣmann — as it were, O long-lived one; anveṣasi — you seek; mahāvane — in the great forest; sā — she, that; devī — lady, goddess; mama — my; ca — and; prāṇā — life-breaths; rāvaṇenobhayaṃ — by Rāvaṇa both; hṛtam — carried off, taken
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.