Chapter 59 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 59

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 59.17

अशोकवनिकामध्ये रावणस्य दुरात्मनः। अधस्ताच्छिशपामूले साध्वी करुणमास्थिता॥

aśokavanikāmadhye rāvaṇasya durātmanaḥ| adhastācchiśapāmūle sādhvī karuṇamāsthitā||

English Meaning

(And I beheld there) in the Asoka forest of the vicious-souled Rāvana, at the foot of a ſingśapā tree, the chaste Sītā waiting very poorly.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)