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  1   1    |            THE Epic relates to the ancient traditions of two powerful
  2   1    |        plural number they mean the ancient races which inhabited those
  3   1, 1 |            fair Ayodhya, sprung of ancient Solar Race,~Royal rishi
  4   1, 1 |         subdued his mind!~Like the ancient monarch Manu, father of
  5   1, 1 |          deceiver lived not in the ancient town,~Proud despiser of
  6   1, 1 |     observance, stainless was each ancient rite,~And the nation thrived
  7   1, 1 |           wife.~Thus was ruled the ancient city by her monarch true
  8   1, 2 |       royal rishi, here is Janak's ancient bow,~Shew it to Ayodhya'
  9   1, 2 |            the rishi spoke:~Now my ancient eyes have witnessed wond'
 10   1, 3 |         the palace hall.~Where the ancient Dasa-ratha sat with peers
 11   1, 4 |         Vasishtha versed in Veda's ancient lore,~Kasyapa and good Jabali
 12   1, 4 |           priest and peer,~Greeted ancient Dasa-ratha in his accents
 13   1, 4 |         Vasishtha versed in Veda's ancient lore,~Welcome every righteous
 14   1, 4 |    betokens giver's bounty, so our ancient sages sing,~And thy righteous
 15   1, 4 |        kingly greeting, marked the ancient monarch's word,~Janak with
 16   1, 5 |     Dasa-ratha stayed~In Mithila's ancient city, and their father's
 17   1, 5 |           and kine,~And he met the ancient monarch, for his health
 18   1, 5 |          father sent,~To Ayodhya's ancient city with an anxious heart
 19   1, 6 |       raised the holy altar as the ancient writs ordain,~Decked and
 20   1, 6 |          or life!"~Tears bedew his ancient bosom, gods and men his
 21   1, 6 |            in all the land,~And as ancient rite ordaineth, and as sacred
 22   1, 6 |       lighted fire,~Round Videha's ancient monarch, round the holy
 23   1, 7 |          way,~And they reached the ancient city decked with banners
 24   1, 7 |            gentle Bharat, thus the ancient monarch spoke:~"Know, my
 25   1, 7 |          above,--~Tended still his ancient father with a never-faltering
 26   2, 1 |            lived of old,~Where the ancient Aswa-pati ruled his kingdom
 27   2, 1 |          be done,~Shall I place my ancient empire in the youthful Rama'
 28   2, 1 |          kings and near relations, ancient Dasa-ratha meant,~Message
 29   2, 1 |            Hall~Stately chiefs and ancient burghers came and mustered
 30   2, 2 |         treading I have sought the ancient path,~Nursed my people as
 31   2, 2 |           to know,~Spake again the ancient monarch in his measured
 32   2, 2 |            and Regent, Dasa-ratha, ancient lord,~For his heart is blessed
 33   2, 2 |          wide earth and exalts his ancient race!~Bright Immortals know
 34   2, 3 |        Lord of Creatures, NARAYANA Ancient Sire,~Placed his offering
 35   2, 3 |          Rama to us all,~Long live ancient Dasa-ratha king of Raghu'
 36   2, 4 |       Bharat speed,~And by law and ancient custom shall not younger
 37   2, 4 |           war and tumult, thus the ancient laws ordain,~Eldest son
 38   2, 4 |            righteous Bharat to thy ancient father's land,~And Satrughna
 39   2, 4 |        grow in friendship, and our ancient legends tell,~Weeds protect
 40   2, 4 |         roam,~This will please thy ancient father and thy father's
 41   2, 4 |          child Kaikeyi, much these ancient eyes have seen,~Rama's rule
 42   2, 4 |           deadly poison worked the ancient nurse's tears,~And a wife'
 43   2, 5 |           consorts, dearest to his ancient heart,~Came the king with
 44   2, 5 |          dalliance woke-within his ancient heart,~And the magic of
 45   2, 5 |     weeping wife,~Young wife of an ancient husband, dearer than his
 46   2, 5 |     reviving ray!"~Blinded was the ancient husband as he lifted up
 47   2, 6 |            wife,~Wrench from me my ancient empire, from my bosom wrench
 48   2, 6 |          his father part,~Till his ancient life is ended, cold and
 49   2, 7 |         righteous Rama touched the ancient monarch's feet,~Touched
 50   2, 7 |          crime or folly caused his ancient bosom smart!~Ever dear is
 51   2, 7 |          now the monarch would his ancient word forego,~He would build
 52   3    |       banished Rama pressed on the ancient heart of Dasa-ratha. The
 53   3, 4 |            s royal race,~Meanwhile ancient Dasa-ratha from his palace
 54   3, 4 |        radiance fail!~Rama saw his ancient father with a faltering
 55   3, 5 |       women, they have loved their ancient king,~And his anguish and
 56   3, 6 |          exile spent!"~Pleased the ancient Bharad-vaja heard the prince'
 57   3, 6 |         hill and jungle where some ancient hermits dwell,~Chitra-kuta,
 58   3, 6 |        peaceful mind,~Hoary-headed ancient hermits, hundred autumns
 59   3, 7 |          the green,~Anchorites and ancient hermits lived in every sylvan
 60   3, 7 |        inspired thy song, Valmiki! Ancient Bard of ancient day,~Deeds
 61   3, 7 |           Valmiki! Ancient Bard of ancient day,~Deeds of virtue and
 62   3, 8 | Chitra-kuta's bower,-~Memory of an ancient sorrow flung on him its
 63   3, 8 |         him its fatal power,~Of an ancient crime and anguish, unforgotten,
 64   3, 8 |         kills me, monarch, bids my ancient parents die.~Helpless, friendless,
 65   3, 8 |          flight,~Were the stricken ancient hermits, friendless, helpless,
 66   4    |         and a world here-after. In ancient India as in ancient Greece
 67   4    |             In ancient India as in ancient Greece there were different
 68   4    |            the Saint Atri; and the ancient and venerable wife of Atri
 69   4, 2 |            lips that fell,~And the ancient Dasa-ratha, glorious still
 70   4, 2 |           grace,~Rule o'er Raghu's ancient empire, son of Raghu's royal
 71   4, 2 |        Raghu's royal race!~For our ancient Law ordaineth and thy Duty
 72   4, 2 |           adored!~And thy father's ancient min'sters and thy courtiers
 73   4, 2 |     answered Rama, "seek Ayodhya's ancient throne,~For a righteous
 74   4, 3 |         Unto Rama's hermit-cottage ancient Queen Kausalya came,~And
 75   4, 4 |      reasoning, Truth is still our ancient way,~Truth sustains the
 76   4, 5 |           strong,~And our father's ancient min'sters, ever faithful,
 77   4, 5 |         with their counsel and thy ancient frontiers keep.~List! the
 78   4, 6 |       saintly Atri, Vedic Bard and ancient sage.~Auasuya, wife of Atri,
 79   4, 6 |          forehead, held her on her ancient breast,~And in mother's
 80   4, 6 |       shine!"~Pleased at heart the ancient priestess clad her in apparel
 81   4, 6 |        Sita gained,~Favours of the ancient priestess, pious blessings
 82   5, 1 |       libations hermits raised the ancient song,~Lotus and the virgin
 83   5, 1 |           princes to the Saint and ancient Sire:~"Righteous Rama, valiant
 84   5, 4 |          mother's wile,'~Vain this ancient impious adage-Bharat spurns
 85   5, 4 |            doue,~And they sang the ancient mantra to the red and rising
 86   9, 10|            we now ever,--guard thy ancient sea-girt throne!"~
 87  11, 3 |          Fair Ayodhya looms above,~Ancient seat of Raghu's empire,
 88  11, 3 |            ended in their father's ancient home!~
 89  11, 4 |       Puranas, minstrels versed in ancient song,~Women with their tuneful
 90  11, 5 |           wand'rer on his father's ancient throne,~And they brought
 91  11, 5 |         wise Vijaya verged in holy ancient lore,~Poured the fresh and
 92  11, 5 |    righteous king!~And tis told by ancient sages, during Rama's happy
 93  12    |         poetry were handed down in ancient India by memory. The boys
 94  12    |        literature was preserved in ancient times in India. Rama recognised
 95  12    |       child into her bosom.~In the ancient hymns of the Rig Veda, Sita
 96  12, 1 |         home unto the orphan poor.~Ancient rishis had not witnessed
 97  12, 3 |          logic, bards who sang the ancient lay,~Painters skilled and
 98 Epi    |         EPILOGUE BY THE TRANSLATOR~Ancient India, like ancient Greece,
 99 Epi    |     TRANSLATOR~Ancient India, like ancient Greece, boasts of two great
100 Epi    |         the Epic literature of the ancient Hindus; and the two together
101 Epi    |            religion and thought of ancient India.~The Ramayana, like
102 Epi    |         are still preserved in the ancient Upanishads, and are among
103 Epi    |          among the gifted races of ancient India.~It would appear that
104 Epi    |            domestic virtues of the ancient Hindus, rich in tenderness
105 Epi    |           deadly poison worked the ancient nurse's tears,~And a wife'
106 Epi    |           every pious Hindu of the ancient times. Every Aryan boy in
107 Epi    |          Hindu righteous life. The ancient ideal may seem to us far-fetched
108 Epi    |         and beauty and gladness in ancient Greece; the ideal of life
109 Epi    |          endurance and devotion in ancient India. The tale of Helen
110 Epi    |      depicts the political life of ancient India, with all its valour
111 Epi    |     domestic and religious life of ancient India, with all its tenderness
112 Epi    |      should know but little of the ancient Hindus if we did not comprehend
113 Epi    |        true and graphic picture of ancient Indian life and civilisation;
114 Epi    |         the poem itself. It is the ancient poet of India, and not the
115 Epi    |            first formed out of the ancient Sanscrit and Prakrits, in
116 Epi    |          of India have studied the ancient story in these modem translations;
117 Epi    |         believes the heroes of the ancient Epics-Krishna and Rama-to
118 Epi    |         villages of Bengal, in the ancient shrines of Northern India,
119 Epi    |   recognises the heroes of the two ancient Epics,--Krishna and Rama,