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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.63.12

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: he also saw the ocean dry up, the moon fall, fire go out, the earth split, trees wither, mountains smoke, and women mock the King on an iron seat

2.63.12

avadīrṇāṃ ca pṛthivīṃ śuṣkāṃś ca vividhān drumān
ahaṃ paśyāmi vidhvastān sadhūmāṃś caiva pārvatān

and I see the earth split open, sundry trees withered, and the mountains blasted and smoking.

Words: avadīrṇāṃ — split open, cleft; ca — and; pṛthivīṃ — the earth; śuṣkāṃś — withered; ca — and; vividhān — various, sundry; drumān — trees; ahaṃ — I; paśyāmi — see; vidhvastān — shattered, blasted; sadhūmāṃś — smoking; caiva — and; pārvatān — mountains, mountain masses

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.