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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.59.7

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 59: Discovery of Daśaratha’s death. Attendants arrive with the morning’s songs and offerings, find the King unresponsive and awaken the Queens to mourning

In the sequence: attendants approach to wake Daśaratha and realize that he is dead → their cries spread through the rooms

2.59.7

atha saṃvepamanānāṃ strīṇāṃ dṛṣṭvā ca pārthivam
yat tad āśaṅkitaṃ pāpaṃ tasya jajñe viniścayaḥ

Then, seeing the king, there arose among the trembling women the certain knowledge of that dreaded calamity.

Words: atha — then; saṃvepamanānāṃ — of the trembling; strīṇāṃ — of the women; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; ca — and; pārthivam — the king; yat — which; tad — that; āśaṅkitaṃ — feared, dreaded; pāpaṃ — calamity, evil; tasya — of that; jajñe — arose, was born; viniścayaḥ — certainty

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.