Book, Chapter

  1   1, 3 |        Kosala's country! with each lord and peer and priest,~Welcome
  2   1, 6 |           to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife,~And my
  3   1, 6 |           to the suistance, to her lord is faithful wife!"~Then
  4   2, 1 |         and his people loved their lord!~To the Brahmans pure and
  5   2, 1 |      monarch gave,~Gracious as the Lord of Creatures held the gathering
  6   2, 2 |          his virtue and his valour lord of earth he might have been!~
  7   2, 2 |         gave their answer to their lord:~"Years of toil and watchful
  8   2, 2 |        Regent, Dasa-ratha, ancient lord,~For his heart is blessed
  9   2, 3 |            sought,~Prayed unto the Lord of Creatures, NARAYANA Ancient
 10   2, 3 |           of kusa spread.~With her lord the saintly Sita silent
 11   2, 3 |   Contemplating World's Preserver, Lord of Heaven's ethereal height,~
 12   2, 5 |          to impart,~Radiant as the Lord of Midnight, ere the eclipse
 13   2, 5 |            softly spake her loving lord:~Wherefore thus, my Queen
 14   3, 1 |      Kosala and of Raghu's race is lord,~Crownéd kings our willing
 15   3, 1 |           boldly answered thus her lord:~"Do I hear my husband rightly,
 16   3, 1 |            spake,~And her banished lord and husband will the wedded
 17   3, 1 |       dismiss the counsel which my lord hath lightly said~For it
 18   3, 1 |           follows where her wedded lord may lead,~In the banishment
 19   3, 1 |            woman's state,~With her lord she falls or rises, with
 20   3, 1 |      pathless jungle, bid me by my lord abide,~Car and steed and
 21   3, 1 |           to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife,~And she
 22   3, 1 |           pride,~Where without her lord and husband faithful Sita
 23   3, 2 |           bring,~Bows of war which Lord VARUNA rendered to Videha'
 24   3, 3 |         who are faithless to their lord,~Who through years of sunny
 25   3, 3 |            woman's faith to wedded lord,~Who to holy love inconstant
 26   3, 3 |   changeless wife,~Faithful to her lord and consort holds him dearer
 27   3, 3 |      lustre ere I part from wedded lord,~Ere from faithful wife'
 28   3, 3 | Measureless to wedded woman is her lord and husband's love,~True
 29   3, 3 |          faithless, loveless to my lord?"~Tears of joy and mingled
 30   3, 6 |          Sita bows to thee.~May my lord return in safety, and a
 31   3, 6 |      dwellers on thy shore,~May my lord return in safety, fourteen
 32   3, 7 |     woodman's craft,~By her loving lord supported Sita stepped upon
 33   3, 7 |          and strong,~And to VISHNU Lord of Creatures, Rama raised
 34   3, 8 |         guiltless children and thy lord and king is slain!~Lay thy
 35   4, 1 |         but with gentle lotus eye.~Lord of wide earth ocean-girdled,
 36   4, 2 |            shame,~Weeps her wedded lord departed, and a woman's
 37   4, 2 |      welcomed, Rama, be her wedded lord,~As by planet-jewelled Midnight
 38   4, 2 |           serve the father and the lord,~Higher than an empire's
 39   4, 4 |           spake to young Ayodhya's lord:~Wherefore, Rama, idle maxims
 40   4, 4 |            not to rule thy empire, lord of Raghu's royal race?~Dasa-ratha
 41   4, 4 |          of thy realm thou art the lord,~Dasa-ratha is departed,
 42   4, 5 |           throne,~Town and hamlet, lord and tiller, turn to thee
 43   4, 5 |      splendour, beauteous like the Lord of Night,~Rama vowed his
 44   4, 6 |        encircled sails the radiant Lord of Night,~With his train
 45   5, 1 |       forest shade,~Rama bright as Lord of Midnight, Sita with her
 46   5, 1 |           forest, king of nations, lord of men,~Grant us to thy
 47   5, 1 |           the flaming AGNI, VISHNU lord of heavenly light,~INDRA
 48   5, 1 |          radiant BHAGA, and KUVERA lord of gold,~And VIDHATRI great
 49   5, 2 |       follows thee,~True to wedded lord and husband she hath followed
 50   5, 4 |           and rising Sun,~With her lord, in loosened tresses Sita
 51   6, 1 |       maiden, sister of the Raksha lord,~Came and looked with eager
 52   6, 1 |     brothers, royal Ravan, Lanka's lord from days of old,~Kumbha-karna
 53   6, 1 |            pride,~Thee I choose as lord and husband,--cast thy human
 54   6, 3 |          flank and side!~"Come, my lord and gallant Lakshman," thus
 55   6, 4 |           who in my frenzy sent my lord to wilderness,~Speed, brave
 56   6, 4 |       clouded by the danger of her lord:~Markest thou my Rama's
 57   6, 6 |        graced my good and gracious lord,~True to faith and true
 58   6, 6 |          wrathful Rakshas, Lanka's lord and king am I,~He whose
 59   6, 6 |        mortals,--Rama is my wedded lord!~Stainless as the Moon in
 60   6, 6 |         virtue,--Rama is my wedded lord!~Sure thy fitful life is
 61   6, 7 |     distant forest where her noble lord had hied.~Then arose the
 62   6, 7 |     winding creepers, murmur to my lord this tale,~Sweet companions
 63   6, 7 |           of pealing thunder to my lord and consort say'~Speak of
 64   7, 2 |           held her husband and her lord,~And a woman's deeper wisdom
 65   7, 2 |         the fight again,~Trust me, lord, that loud defiance is no
 66   7, 2 |           dress,~Not with such, my lord and husband, seek a vain
 67   7, 2 |          valour, peerless like the Lord of sky!"~
 68   7, 3 |            Tara stopped around her lord,~Welling tear-drops choked
 69   7, 4 |           and warrior, maha-matra, lord and peer,~Gathered round
 70   7, 4 |        Rama, prince Sugriva is our lord,~To his father's throne
 71   7, 4 |            their monarch and their lord,~Holy consecrating water
 72   7, 4 |     tear-drops bowing to a younger lord!~
 73   7, 6 |            bold and free:~"Take my lord, a countless army of the
 74   8    |           true and faithful to her lord. Hanuman gave her a token
 75   8, 1 |   suffering sorrows for her absent lord,~Still for Rama lost but
 76   8, 2 |     resplendent shines the radiant Lord of Night,~True unto his
 77   8, 3 |         and vassal, token from thy lord I bring,~Mark this bright
 78   8, 3 |            her loved and cherished lord,~And once more herself she
 79   8, 3 |     accents of her consort and her lord:~"Messenger of love of Rama!
 80   8, 3 |            beaming visage like the Lord of Midnight Sky,~Firm in
 81   8, 4 |       anger and her truth unto her lord,~Tears of sorrow and affection
 82   8, 4 |          vengeance Lanka's impious lord to smite!"~
 83   9    |          should be restored to her lord and peace made with Rama.
 84   9, 3 |            spake to Lanka's mighty lord:~"Never shall the wily foeman
 85   9, 6 |        king and elder, Sita to her lord restore,~Wipe this deed
 86   9, 6 |            its prey,~Render to the lord his consort ere with blood
 87   9, 7 |           his fiery wrath!~For the Lord of Sky shall tremble when
 88   9, 8 |          the desert woods to roam?~Lord of sky and nether region,
 89   9, 10|        race and kismen, 'gainst my lord and brother's death,~Ponder
 90  10, 2 |        widow's mournful cry:~Rama, lord and king and husband! didst
 91  10, 2 |           s tears in vain,~For thy lord is sorely wounded, but shall
 92  10, 3 |          his bow:~"Welcome, mighty Lord of Lanka! wage with me an
 93  10, 3 |            dubious battle, Lanka's Lord his weapon bent,~Seven bright
 94  10, 5 |            no more.~Hear my vow, O Lord of Rakshas! ere descends
 95  10, 7 |            silent sorrowed for her lord.~Woman's blood the royal
 96  10, 12|           days are done,~Since her lord and king and husband from
 97  11    |         Fire, and returns with her lord and with Lakshman in an
 98  11, 1 |    trustful wife,~When a righteous lord and husband turns his cold
 99  11, 1 |        unto the Gods above,~On her lord and wedded consort cast
100  11, 5 |         hailed their Rama as their lord and righteous king!~And
101  11, 5 |         and the people loved their lord!~Trees their ample produce
102  12, 2 |      father of his subjects, he is lord of creatures all!"~
103  12, 5 |        Sita, in her bosom held her lord!~Mighty Saint," so Rama
104  12, 5 |           from afar,~Saw her royal lord and husband bright as heaven-ascending
105 Epi    |           to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife,~And she
106 Epi    |          trust and devotion to her lord as before, and she returns