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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.106.11
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 106: Bharata returns without Rāma. Ayodhyā resembles an extinguished fire and deserted altar, he laments its emptiness and reaches Daśaratha’s residence
In the sequence: the narrative pauses over its emptiness through a series of comparisons: an extinguished fire, a defeated army, an abandoned altar, a damaged watering place, and a sky without its familiar lights
2.106.11
sahasā calitāṃ sthānān mahīṃ puṇyakṣayād gatām
saṃhṛtadyutivistārāṃ tārām iva divaś cyutām
like a star fallen from the sky, suddenly dislodged from its station, come down to earth at the exhaustion of its merit, its spread of radiance drawn in;
Words: sahasā — suddenly; calitāṃ — dislodged, moved; sthānān — from its station; mahīṃ — to the earth; puṇyakṣayād — at the exhaustion of merit; gatām — gone; saṃhṛtadyutivistārāṃ — with its spread of radiance drawn in; tārām iva — like a star; divaś — from heaven; cyutām — fallen
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.