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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.59.8

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

2.59.8

tataḥ pracukruśur dīnāḥ sasvaraṃ tā varāṅganāḥ
kareṇava ivāraṇye sthānapracyutayūthapāḥ

Then those lovely women wailed aloud, piteously, like she-elephants in the forest whose herd-leader has been struck from his place.

Words: tataḥ — then; pracukruśur — wailed out; dīnāḥ — piteous; sasvaraṃ — aloud, with a cry; tā — those; varāṅganāḥ — lovely women; kareṇava — she-elephants; ivāraṇye — like in the forest; sthānapracyutayūthapāḥ — whose herd-leaders are fallen from their place

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.