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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.65.21

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 65: Bharata reaches Ayodhyā. He hastens ahead of his company, finds the city silent and neglected and enters his father’s residence in alarm

In the sequence: entering through the Vaijayanta gate, he notices further bad signs

2.65.21

aniṣṭāni ca pāpāni paśyāmi vividhāni ca
nimittāny amanojñāni tena sīdati te manaḥ

And I see manifold inauspicious, evil, and disagreeable omens; because of that your mind is sinking.

Words: aniṣṭāni — inauspicious, undesired; ca — and; pāpāni — evil; paśyāmi — I see; vividhāni — manifold, various; ca — and; nimittāny — omens, signs; amanojñāni — disagreeable, unpleasant; tena — because of that; sīdati — sinks, is despondent; te — your; manaḥ — mind

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.