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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.11.7

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 11: Daśaratha’s pleas fail to move Kaikeyī. Kaikeyī insists that Daśaratha honour his promise, his night-long appeals fail to change her demands

In the sequence: night falls while he is still lamenting

2.11.7

tathā vilapatas tasya paribhramitacetasaḥ
astam abhyagamat sūryo rajanī cābhyavartata

As he lamented thus, his mind whirling, the sun went to its setting and night came on.

Words: tathā — thus; vilapatas — of (him) lamenting; tasya — his; paribhramitacetasaḥ — his mind whirling; astam — to (its) setting; abhyagamat — went; sūryo — the sun; rajanī — night; cābhyavartata — and came on

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.