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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.63.8
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 saw his father dirty and disheveled, falling into filth, drinking oil, eating sesame rice, and sinking into oil
2.63.8
svapne pitaram adrākṣaṃ malinaṃ muktamūrdhajam
patantam adriśikharāt kaluṣe gomaye hrade
In a dream I saw my father, grimy and with disheveled hair, falling from a mountain peak into a foul pool of cow-dung.
Words: svapne — in a dream; pitaram — my father; adrākṣaṃ — I saw; malinaṃ — grimy, dirty; muktamūrdhajam — with disheveled hair; patantam — falling; adriśikharāt — from a mountain peak; kaluṣe — into a foul, muddy; gomaye — of cow-dung; hrade — pool
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.