Book, Chapter

  1   1, 1 |             his mind!~Like the ancient monarch Manu, father of the human
  2   1, 1 |              quelled~People's Love and Monarch's Duty every thought and
  3   1, 1 |                the ancient city by her monarch true and bold,~As the earth
  4   1, 2 |              BREAKING OF THE BOW~Janak monarch of Videha spake his memage
  5   1, 2 |                pride the royal rishi: "Monarch of Videha's throne,~Grant,
  6   1, 2 |               retainers waiting on the monarch's call,~Brought the great
  7   1, 2 |               the bow," then spake the monarch to the risha famed of old,~
  8   1, 2 |              listened to the words the monarch said,~To the brave and righteous
  9   1, 2 |              answered, "be it so," the monarch said,~Rama lifted high the
 10   1, 2 |                assented, envoys by the monarch sent,~To Ayodhya's distant
 11   1, 3 |           spent,~Envoys from Mithila's monarch to Ayodhya's city went,~
 12   1, 3 |              Greetings to thee, mighty monarch, greetings to each priest
 13   1, 3 |           Videha's king we bear,~Janak monarch of Videha for thy happy
 14   1, 3 |             thy kind permission given!~Monarch of Kosala's country! with
 15   1, 3 |              bidding are the words our monarch said~This by Sata-nanda'
 16   1, 3 |             made."~Joyful was Kosala's monarch, spake to chieftains in
 17   1, 4 |                preceptor with Kosala's monarch ride,~Harness to my royal
 18   1, 4 |                band,~Joyously Videha's monarch greeted every priest and
 19   1, 4 |           greeting, marked the ancient monarch's word,~Janak with a grateful
 20   1, 5 |                 And he met the ancient monarch, for his health and safety
 21   1, 5 |               O king! my royal father, monarch of Kaikeya's race,~Sends
 22   1, 5 |           stood,~And to fair Videlia's monarch spake Vasishtha wise and
 23   1, 5 | righteous-souled Vasishtha to Videha's monarch prayed,~Janak versed in
 24   1, 6 |                 Round Videha's ancient monarch, round the holy rishis all,~
 25   1, 7 |               Bharat, thus the ancient monarch spoke:~"Know, my son, the
 26   1, 7 |             thee, Bharat, to Kaikeya's monarch bold,~Go and stay with them
 27   2, 1 |         andchieftain to his guests the monarch gave,~Gracious as the Lord
 28   2, 1 |          Kosala's Council nor Videha's monarch came,~Nor the warlike chief
 29   2, 1 |          cushion rich and high,~And on monarch Dasa-ratha eager turned
 30   2, 2 |           Peers and burghers, let your monarch, now his lifelong labour
 31   2, 2 |               He will be your gracious monarch favoured well by FORTUNE'
 32   2, 2 |                Spake again the ancient monarch in his measured words and
 33   2, 3 |                lofty hall,~Praised the monarch Dasa-ratha, regent Rama
 34   2, 4 |                 Weeds protect a forest monarch which the woodman's axe
 35   2, 4 |               beauty thou hast won thy monarch's heart,~Queen Kausalya'
 36   2, 5 |               Carne the old and ardent monarch heedless of his darksome
 37   2, 5 |         thought of gladness walked the monarch proud and bold.~Through
 38   2, 5 |                 With a soft desire the monarch vainly searched the vanished
 39   2, 5 |              Thither flew the stricken monarch; on the bare and unswept
 40   2, 5 |             oath and promise bound the monarch love-beguiled:~"Thou hast
 41   2, 5 |              Immortal,--witness ye the monarch's oath,~Ever faithful to
 42   2, 5 |              Call to mind, O righteous monarch, days when in a bygone strife,~
 43   2, 6 |               prevail?~So the stricken monarch pondered and in hushed and
 44   2, 6 |            Stunned awhile remained the monarch, then in furious passion
 45   2, 6 |            Speak if so it please thee, monarch, of thy evil-destined wife,~
 46   2, 6 |          humble boon she sighed,~How a monarch broke his promise, how a
 47   2, 6 |            Fair thy form," resumed the monarch, "beauty dwells upon thy
 48   2, 6 |             rent,~Truth-abiding is our monarch, so I heard the people say,~
 49   2, 6 |            distant star,~Wilder in the monarch's bosom raged the struggle
 50   2, 6 |        covering mantle o'er an impious monarch's grief,~Spread thy vast
 51   2, 6 |            lapse of time,~May a sinful monarch perish ere the dawning of
 52   2, 7 |               Rama touched the ancient monarch's feet,~Touched the feet
 53   2, 7 |                Rama!" cried the feeble monarch, but the tear bedimmed his
 54   2, 7 |             Reft of sense appeared the monarch, crushed beneath a load
 55   2, 7 |           royal consorts on the loving monarch wait,~Hath some woe or dire
 56   2, 7 |                have passed and now the monarch would his ancient word forego,~
 57   2, 7 |             men!~Tender-hearted is the monarch, age and sorrow dim his
 58   3    |                story told by the dying monarch.~The portions translated
 59   3, 1 |             heedless angry word,~He is monarch of Kosala and of Raghu's
 60   3, 4 |              dame!~And around the aged monarch rose the piercing voice
 61   3, 4 |               And the faint and feeble monarch was with age and anguish
 62   3, 4 |         courtiers round their fainting monarch drew,~And they spake to
 63   3, 5 |               in his onward way,~For a monarch meek in suffering should
 64   3, 8 |               wave,~And unto Ayodhya's monarch, banished Rama's message
 65   3, 8 |                 What offence, O mighty monarch, all-unknowing have I done,~
 66   3, 8 |               thy shaft that kills me, monarch, bids my ancient parents
 67   3, 8 |            fall?~Hasten to my parents, monarch, soothe their sorrow and
 68   3, 8 |                 But before thou goest, monarch, take, O take thy torturing
 69   3, 8 |             midnight, feebly still the monarch sighed,~Blessed Kausalya
 70   4, 2 |           their peaceful toil,~For the monarch's highest duty is to serve
 71   4, 4 |            word,~View him as a foreign monarch, of thy realm thou art the
 72   4, 4 |                earth and nations and a monarch's righteous sway,~Mighty
 73   4, 5 |               to a loyal nation absent monarch's will proclaim,~Watch the
 74   4, 6 |           soft-eyed Sita told:~How the monarch of Videha held the plough
 75   4, 6 |               sprang to birth,~How the monarch of Videha welcomed kings
 76   5, 1 |              of living creatures, YAMA monarch of the dead,~And VARUNA
 77   5, 1 |                gold,~Not unworthy of a monarch and a warrior true and bold,~
 78   6, 4 |                 Help thy elder and thy monarch, sore his danger and his
 79   6, 4 |             none,~Daughter of Videha's monarch,-pardon if I do thee wrong,~
 80   6, 5 |            hero worth thy beauty, be a monarch's queenly bride!~Speak thy
 81   6, 6 |               our happy time,~Till the monarch Dasa-ratha,-for his days
 82   6, 6 |                 Bharat shall be ruling monarch, do thou to the woods repair,'--~
 83   7, 1 |                forests roam,~Great was monarch Dasa-ratha famed for sacrifice
 84   7, 1 |            gift of gold and kine,~By a monarch's stainless duty people'
 85   7, 1 |       stainless duty people's love the monarch won,~By a woman's false
 86   7, 2 |               deadliest sin!~Trust me, monarch of Kishkindha, trust thy
 87   7, 4 |        friendly footsteps bend,~And as monarch of the Vanars consecrate
 88   7, 4 |            horn of wild bull, on their monarch and their lord,~Holy consecrating
 89   7, 5 |                water when they bless a monarch's reign!~Fair and tall as
 90   7, 5 |               my foeman's wrath!~Ravan monarch of the Rakshas,-so Jataya
 91   8, 2 |               Raghu mightiest king and monarch he,~Robed in every royal
 92   8, 2 |              forests strayed,~Till the monarch of the Rakshas,-fraudful
 93   8, 3 |               billows which confess no monarch's sway,~O'er the face of
 94   8, 4 |               s fond affection, with a monarch's stature high,~Ah, methinks
 95   9, 1 |                 I - RAVAN SEEKS ADVICE~Monarch of the mighty Rakshas, Ravan
 96   9, 1 |            speak your counsel and your monarch's task shall be~But to shape
 97   9, 1 |             united, shape your willing monarch's deed,~Counsel peace, or
 98   9, 5 |                 Need is none, O mighty monarch, for a battle or a war,~
 99   9, 5 |             lolling tongue:~Wherefore, monarch, dream of battle? Rakshas
100   9, 6 |                of the warriors and the monarch's fatal choice,~Firm in
101   9, 6 |                Take my counsel, Raksha monarch, vain against him is thy
102   9, 7 |                triumph o'er a heedless monarch's might,~As through gaps
103   9, 7 |               know,~He shall fight his monarch's battle, he shall face
104   9, 7 |                 True to brother and to monarch, be he right or be he wrong,~
105   9, 7 |               Faithful to his race and monarch he shall face the haughty
106   9, 10|            death,~Ponder yet, O Raksha monarch, save thy race and save
107  10    |                him only, was Ravan the monarch of Lanka; he twice defeated
108  10, 2 |                 Sita's love! Ayodhya's monarch! Queen Kausalya's dearest
109  10, 3 |              lightning fire~Girt their monarch, as his legions girdle RUDRA
110  10, 3 |              Boldly challenged Lanka's monarch as he held aloft his bow:~"
111  10, 7 |                 In a brighter world, O monarch, lives thy brave, thy gallant
112  10, 7 |          deeper sorrow wakened Lanka's monarch wept and wailed:~"Greatest
113  10, 7 |                forests when the forest monarch falls,~Hark! the wailing
114  10, 7 |              oft I pondered,--when the monarch Ravan dics,~Indrajit shall
115  10, 7 |              and silent, fell upon the monarch's breast,~Then a swelling
116  10, 7 |             Perish she!" exclaimed the monarch, "she-wolf Sita dies to-day,~
117  10, 8 |             the homes of Lanka did the monarch's ears awail,~And a mighty
118  10, 8 |             vengeance waked within the monarch's heart,~And he heaved a
119  10, 8 |             witness Lakshman's or your monarch's fall~Call to mind each
120  11, 3 |              tears of anguish when her monarch lost his life,~She hath
121  11, 3 |            Gave him word,--he would be monarch ere the evening's Sun had
122  11, 5 |              rites and meet~Placed the monarch and his consort on the gemmed
123  11, 5 |              weapons round the crownéd monarch throng,~Juices from each
124  12, 1 |             chieftain and each crownéd monarch stood.~Palaces and stately
125  12, 1 |               people crowding by their monarch's door,~Food and drink unto
126  12, 2 |             street and pathway, in the monarch's palace hall,~Sing it by
127  12, 2 |             blend,~Bow unto the mighty monarch, bow to Rama fair and tall,~
128  12, 3 |                hermit minstrels lent a monarch's willing car,~Blended with
129  12, 3 |             Gold and silver, bounteous monarch, forest life beseem not
130  12, 3 |             All thy matchless deeds, O monarch, in this Lay will brighter
131 Epi    |                this translation), is a monarch and a saint. Sita, the daughter
132 Epi    |           cantos. The grief of the old monarch at the banishment of the
133 Epi    |               Krishna implored the old monarch of the Kurus not to plunge
134 Epi    |          vacillation of the feeble old monarch, and Rama is banished at
135 Epi    |            pathetic story in which the monarch recounts his misdeed of