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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.4.18

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

2.4.18

avaṣṭabdhaṃ ca me rāma nakṣatraṃ dāruṇair grahaiḥ
āvedayanti daivajñāḥ sūryāṅgārakarāhubhiḥ

And my birth-star, Rāma, is beset by fearsome planets — by the Sun, Mars, and Rāhu — so the astrologers inform me.

Words: avaṣṭabdhaṃ — beset, seized, obstructed; ca — and; me — my; rāma — O Rāma; nakṣatraṃ — (birth-)star, asterism; dāruṇair — by fearsome; grahaiḥ — by planets; āvedayanti — inform, announce; daivajñāḥ — the astrologers; sūryāṅgārakarāhubhiḥ — by the Sun, Mars, and Rāhu

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.