Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa 63: Bharata’s ominous dream · 2.63.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.63.1

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 63: Bharata’s ominous dream. Daśaratha falls into filth and oil and travels south in a donkey-drawn chariot, Bharata wakes fearing a family death

In the sequence: That same night Bharata dreams of disaster and wakes deeply troubled

2.63.1

yām eva rātriṃ te dūtāḥ praviśanti sma tāṃ purīm
bharatenāpi tāṃ rātriṃ svapno dṛṣṭo 'yam apriyaḥ

On the very night that those messengers entered that city, Bharata too on that night saw this unpleasant dream.

Words: yām eva — on the very (night) which; rātriṃ — night; te — those; dūtāḥ — messengers; praviśanti sma — entered; tāṃ — that; purīm — city; bharatenāpi — by Bharata too; tāṃ — that; rātriṃ — night; svapno — a dream; dṛṣṭo — was seen; 'yam — this; apriyaḥ — unpleasant

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.