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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.22.15

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

3.22.15

ulkāś cāpi sanirghoṣā nipetur ghoradarśanāḥ
pracacāla mahī cāpi saśailavanakānanā

And meteors, with a crash, dreadful to see, fell down; and the earth too shook, with its mountains, woods, and forests.

Words: ulkāś — meteors; cāpi — and also; sanirghoṣā — with a crash, resounding; nipetur — fell; ghoradarśanāḥ — dreadful to see; pracacāla — shook, trembled; mahī — the earth; cāpi — and also; saśailavanakānanā — with its mountains, woods, and forests

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.