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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.75.3

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 75: Bharata refuses royal honours. He stops the morning music proclaiming him King, Vasiṣṭha calls the ministers, priests, commanders and guild representatives to assemble

In the sequence: At dawn the palace musicians and bards begin honoring Bharata as King

2.75.3

sa tūrya ghoṣaḥ sumahān divam āpūrayann iva
bharataṃ śokasaṃtaptaṃ bhūyaḥ śokair arandhrayat

That very great clamor of instruments, as if filling the sky, pierced Bharata — already tormented with grief — yet again with fresh sorrows.

Words: sa — that; tūrya ghoṣaḥ — clamor of instruments; sumahān — very great; divam — the sky; āpūrayann iva — as if filling; bharataṃ — Bharata; śokasaṃtaptaṃ — tormented with grief; bhūyaḥ — yet again, further; śokair — with sorrows; arandhrayat — pierced through

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.