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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.4.17

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 4: Omens hasten the abhiṣeka. Daśaratha fixes the ceremony for the next day while Bharata is away, Rāma & Sītā must fast and sleep on darbha

In the sequence: he has been having frightening dreams; meteors have fallen with crashing sounds, and astrologers report threatening planetary influences on his birth-star → fearing death or another disaster, he wants the ceremony completed while his mind remains steady

2.4.17

api cādyāśubhān rāma svapnān paśyāmi dāruṇān
sanirghātā maholkāś ca patantīha mahāsvanāḥ

Moreover, of late, Rāma, I have been seeing terrible, inauspicious dreams; and great meteors, with thunderclaps, fall here with a mighty crash.

Words: api — moreover, also; cādyāśubhān — and today/of late inauspicious; rāma — O Rāma; svapnān — dreams; paśyāmi — I see; dāruṇān — terrible, dreadful; sanirghātā — with thunderclaps; maholkāś ca — and great meteors; patantīha — fall here; mahāsvanāḥ — with great noise

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.