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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.57.11

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 57: Daśaratha’s arrow aimed at a sound. He recalls mistaking a filling pot for an elephant and shooting a youth who directs him to his blind parents

In the sequence: He recalls his youth, before their marriage, when he was still heir: during the rainy season he went hunting beside the Sarayū

2.57.11

upāsyahi rasān bhaumāṃs taptvā ca jagad aṃśubhiḥ
paretācaritāṃ bhīmāṃ ravir āviśate diśam

For after drawing up the earth's moisture and scorching the world with his rays, the sun then enters the dread southern quarter, haunted by the departed spirits.

Words: upāsyahi — for having drawn up, consumed; rasān — the moistures, juices; bhaumāṃs — of the earth, earthly; taptvā — having scorched, heated; ca — and; jagad — the world; aṃśubhiḥ — with (its) rays; paretācaritāṃ — frequented by the departed; bhīmāṃ — dreadful; ravir — the sun; āviśate — enters; diśam — the quarter, direction

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.