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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.66
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 10: Ten years among the hermitages. Māṇḍakarṇi’s lake music is explained, years of visits lead toward Agastya, Rāma recounts his digestion of Vātāpi
In the sequence: As Rāma finishes the account, evening falls → the brothers worship at twilight, enter Agastya's brother's hermitage, and spend the night after eating roots and fruit
3.10.66
evaṃ kathayamānasya tasya saumitriṇā saha
rāmasyāstaṃ gataḥ sūryaḥ saṃdhyākālo 'bhyavartata
As Rāma was speaking thus together with Saumitri, the sun went to its setting, and the twilight hour came on.
Words: evaṃ — thus; kathayamānasya — as he was speaking; tasya — his, of him; saumitriṇā saha — together with Saumitri (Lakṣmaṇa); rāmasyāstaṃ — of Rāma... to setting; gataḥ — went; sūryaḥ — the sun; saṃdhyākālo — the twilight hour; 'bhyavartata — came on, approached
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.