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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.64.10

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 64: Rāma performs Jaṭāyu’s funeral. Jaṭāyu reports the southward flight and dies, Rāma cremates him as kin, offers deer meat and gives water in the Godāvarī

In the sequence: Jaṭāyu says that Rāvaṇa used powerful magic, cut his wings when he was exhausted, and carried Sītā away toward the south

3.64.10

pariśrāntasya me tāta pakṣau chittvā niśācaraḥ
sītām ādāya vaidehīṃ prayāto dakṣiṇā mukhaḥ

When I was exhausted, dear one, the night-roamer cut off my two wings and, taking Vaidehī Sītā, went off facing southward.

Words: pariśrāntasya — exhausted, worn out; me — of me; tāta — dear one; pakṣau — the two wings; chittvā — having cut off; niśācaraḥ — the night-roamer; sītām — Sītā; ādāya — having taken; vaidehīṃ — Vaidehī; prayāto — went off, departed; dakṣiṇā mukhaḥ — facing south

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.