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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.27.7
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 27: Rāma takes up Viṣṇu’s bow. Khara breaks his bow and shoots away his armour, Rāma uses Agastya’s gift to destroy Khara’s chariot and bow
In the sequence: the two exchange such dense volleys that their arrows hide the sky and sun
3.27.7
sa sāyakair durviṣahaiḥ sasphuliṅgair ivāgnibhiḥ
nabhaś cakārāvivaraṃ parjanya iva vṛṣṭibhiḥ
With his unbearable arrows, like fires spitting sparks, he made the sky gapless, as the rain-god fills it with showers.
Words: sa — he; sāyakair — with arrows; durviṣahaiḥ — unbearable, hard to withstand; sasphuliṅgair — spitting sparks; ivāgnibhiḥ — like fires; nabhaś — the sky; cakārāvivaraṃ — made gapless (dense); parjanya — the rain-god, rain-cloud; iva — as, like; vṛṣṭibhiḥ — with showers of rain
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.