Valmiki Ramayana's Reference to a Tsunami

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Valmiki Ramayana's Reference to a Tsunami :

Maharshi Valmiki has described a Tsunami....tamashca lokamaavavre dishashca na chakaashirepraticukshubhire caashu saraamsi saritastadaatiryak ca saha nakshatraiH samgatau candrabhaaskaraubhaaskaraamshubhiraadiiptam tamasaa ca samaavR^itampracakaashe tadaakaashamulkaashatavidiipitamantarikshaachcha nirghaataa nirjagmuratulasvanaaHvapuHprakarSeNa vavurdivyamaarutapaN^ktyaHbabhaJNja cha tadaa vR^ikshaan jaladaanudvahan muhuHaarujamshcaiva shailaagraan shikharaaNi babhaJNja cadivi ca sma mahaavegaaH samhataaH samahaasvanaaHmumucurvaidyutaanagniimste mahaashanayastadaa[14-15]sahabhuutaiH satoyormiH sanaagaH saharaakshasaHsahasaabhuuttato vegaadbhiimavego mahodadhiHyojanam vyaticakraama velaamanyatra samplavaatDarkness engulfed all, and all directions were obscured. Celestial bodies, even the sun and moon, appeared to be moving on strange paths. Waters were highly

shaken. Although sun rays had already appeared on the horizon, the sky was enveloped by an unusual kind of darkness. The horizon shone from afar as if lit by a hundred meteors while thunders reverberated with an unparalleled sound in the sky. Mighty winds were thumping and thrashing all in their sway, sweeping away the clouds only to replace them with even darker and denser ones, and uprooting trees after trees. Such strong winds indeed, which were shattering the mountain peaks, even razing off the rock edges. When winds of great velocity battered together, the sky seemed to emit flashes of mighty lightning with terrifying sound followed by great thunders as no one might have heard before.Such was the scene when arose mountainous waves in the great ocean, which soon became possessed of terrific momentum. With tremendous speed and volume, those water mountains crashed on to the shore. In no time, water ran all over the land flooding large

portions inside the coast, to an extent of a Yojana.

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