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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.111.6

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 111: Departure from Atri’s hermitage. Sītā wears Anasūyā’s gifts, Rāma, Sītā & Lakṣmaṇa receive warnings of rākṣasas and take the forest path

In the sequence: she points out the evening scene: birds returning to rest, munis coming back from bathing, smoke rising from agnihotras, darkness gathering, and the moon appearing

2.111.6

ṛṣīṇām agnihotreṣu huteṣu vidhipurvakam
kapotāṅgāruṇo dhūmo dṛśyate pavanoddhataḥ

Now that the sages' fire-oblations have been offered according to rule, smoke grey as a pigeon's body is seen, driven upward by the wind.

Words: ṛṣīṇām — of the sages; agnihotreṣu — in the fire-oblations; huteṣu — when offered; vidhipurvakam — according to rule; kapotāṅgāruṇo — grey like a pigeon's body; dhūmo — the smoke; dṛśyate — is seen; pavanoddhataḥ — driven up by the wind

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.