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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.65.27

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: the people look unwashed, thin, and tearful → increasingly anxious, he enters his father's residence.

2.65.27

tāṃ śūnyaśṛṅgāṭakaveśmarathyāṃ rajo'ruṇadvārakapāṭayantrām
dṛṣṭvā purīm indrapurī prakāśāṃ duḥkhena saṃpūrṇataro babhūva

Seeing that city — once bright as Indra's city, now with its crossroads, houses, and streets deserted, its gate-panels and bolts reddened with dust — he grew filled with grief all the more.

Words: tāṃ — that; śūnyaśṛṅgāṭakaveśmarathyāṃ — with deserted crossroads, houses and streets; rajo'ruṇadvārakapāṭayantrām — with gate-panels and bolts reddened by dust; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; purīm — the city; indrapurī — Indra's city; prakāśāṃ — resembling, shining like; duḥkhena — with grief; saṃpūrṇataro — more completely filled; babhūva — became

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.