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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.22.14

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 22: Omens on Khara’s march. Blood-coloured rain, darkness and bodily tremors warn of disaster, Khara dismisses them and advances with his leading warriors

In the sequence: plants lose their flowers and fruit, dust rises without wind, meteors fall, and the earth shakes

3.22.14

uddhūtaś ca vinā vātaṃ reṇur jaladharāruṇaḥ
vīcīkūcīti vāśyanto babhūvus tatra sārikāḥ

And without any wind, dust rose up, grey as a rain-cloud; and there the mynah-birds went on screeching “vīcīkūcī.”

Words: uddhūtaś — raised up, stirred up; ca — and; vinā — without; vātaṃ — wind; reṇur — dust; jaladharāruṇaḥ — grey as a rain-cloud; vīcīkūcīti — 'vīcīkūcī' (a screech); vāśyanto — screeching, crying; babhūvus — became, were; tatra — there; sārikāḥ — the mynah-birds

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.