[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Mixed prose-and-verse narratives](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu) › [Campūs on the Rāma story](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana) › [Campūrāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt) › 3.17 # Rāmāyaṇacampū 3.17 English (machine translation) 3.17 - **Language:** English ### [3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt.3.17) Then, seeing her, he thought thus: Beholding the queen, whose ornament of dress was gone, / like a jasmine plant transplanted by a barbarian from a mango grove into a cactus thicket, / or like a garland thrown into a cremation ground by a dog thinking it to be flesh, / brought deceitfully from the hermitage to his own palace by the night-roamer, Māruti thought: (17) - [Previous: 3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt.3.16) - [Next: 3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt.3.18) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt.3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.ramayana.ramayanacampu~en-mt.3.17) · Pramāṇa