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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.10

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 62: Lakṣmaṇa recalls Rāma’s own teaching. Even the great suffer loss, judgment and effort must survive grief so that the enemy can be found and defeated

In the sequence: he cites misfortune even among the great: Yayāti's fall, Vasiṣṭha's loss of a hundred sons, the earth's tremors, and eclipses of the sun and moon

3.62.10

yau cemau jagatāṃ netre yatra sarvaṃ pratiṣṭhitam
ādityacandrau grahaṇam abhyupetau mahābalau

“And those two mighty eyes of the worlds, on which all rests — the sun and the moon — undergo eclipse.

Words: yau — which two; cemau — and these two; jagatāṃ — of the worlds; netre — the two eyes; yatra — wherein, on which; sarvaṃ — all; pratiṣṭhitam — rests, is established; ādityacandrau — the sun and moon; grahaṇam — eclipse, seizure; abhyupetau — undergo, come to; mahābalau — the two mighty ones

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.