Chapter 22 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 22

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 22.8

तिर्यक् च सह नक्षत्रैः संगतौ चन्द्रभास्करौ। भास्करांशुभिरादीप्तं तमसा च समावृतम्॥ प्रचकाशे तदाकाशमुल्काशतविदीपितम्। अन्तरिक्षाच्च निर्घाता निर्जग्मुरतुलस्वनाः॥

tiryak ca saha nakṣatraiḥ saṃgatau candrabhāskarau| bhāskarāṃśubhirādīptaṃ tamasā ca samāvṛtam|| pracakāśe tadākāśamulkāśatavidīpitam| antarikṣācca nirghātā nirjagmuratulasvanāḥ||

English Meaning

The stars appeared simultaneously with the Sun and Moon.* And the sky was illumined with the rays of the Sun, and yet it was overspread with darkness; and it burned with an hundred meteors. And thunder-bolts sending forth sounds surpassing all others, dropped from the firmament. *The phenomenon, remarks the commentator, was owing to the heavenly bodies obstructing each other's orbit.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)