Book, Chapter

 1   2   |         banishment for fourteen years.~The portions translated
 2   2, 2|         my task is almost done!~Years have passed of fruitful
 3   2, 2|      passed of fruitful labour, years of work by fortune blest,~
 4   2, 2|    friends, the evening's rest,~Years have passed in watchful
 5   2, 2|    their answer to their lord:~"Years of toil and watchful labour
 6   2, 2|     thee, king of men,~Young in years is righteous Rama, Heir
 7   2, 4|         brother stand,~Young in years and generous-hearted, they
 8   2, 5|         hermit's cell,~Fourteen years in Dandak's forests let
 9   2, 7|        caitiff breaks his word,~Years have passed and now the
10   2, 7|      and honour still,~Fourteen years in Dandak's forest live
11   2, 7|         at thy will,~Seven long years and seven, my Rama, thou
12   3, 1|    royal line,~Part we now, for years of wand'ring in the pathless
13   3, 1|      her son anointed,-fourteen years doth Rama stray,~But before
14   3, 1|        my roval father willetb,-years of banishment be mine,~Brave
15   3, 1|        thine,~Part we love! for years of wand'ring in the pathless
16   3, 1|      the cool translucent wave!~Years will pass in happy union,--
17   3, 3|         their lord,~Who through years of sunny splendour smile
18   3, 3|        beam,~Swift will fly the years of exile like a brief and
19   3, 4|   wander long and far,~Fourteen years in Dandak's forest shall
20   3, 4|    precious store,~For the many years of exile in a far and unknown
21   3, 6|      return in safety, fourteen years of exile o'er!",~On the
22   3, 6|          We would through these years of exile in some holy asram
23   3, 6|      filled with wisdom and our years of exile spent!"~Pleased
24   3, 6|     filled with wisdom and your years of exile spent!"~"Gracious
25   3, 6|        jungle we may pass these years in peace."~"Twenty miles
26   3, 8|     dread,~Through the lapse of years and seasons casting back
27   3, 8|   perished in the lighted fire,~Years have gone and many seasons,
28   4, 4|         may not unsay,~Fourteen years in pathless forests father'
29   4, 5|   matted tresses wear,~Fourteen years the crownéd Bharat will
30   4, 5|         his only food,~Fourteen years shall pass in waiting, weary
31   5   |      the Deccan, three thousand years ago. He was pioneer, discoverer
32   5, 1|         will,~And we pass these years of exile to our father's
33   6, 6|         his valour won my hand.~Years we passed in peaceful pleasure
34   7, 4|     grateful friend!"~"Fourteen years," so Rama answered, "by
35  10, 7|    where art thou gone!~Full of years,--so oft I pondered,--when
36  11, 5|        the royal hall,~Fourteen years of woe were ended, Rama
37  12   |        to twins, Lava and Kusa. Years passed on, and Lava and
38  12   |        pupils of Valmiki.~After years had passed, Rama performed
39  12, 1|               I - THE SACRIFICE~Years have passed; the lonely
40 Epi   | Northern India about a thousand years before Christ, the Kosalas
41 Epi   |    recounts his misdeed of past years, accepts his present suffering
42 Epi   |       Rama suffers for fourteen years in exile, and is chastened
43 Epi   |       twenty-four or thirty-six years, before he entered the married
44 Epi   |        well-nigh three thousand years, two Epics instead of one
45 Epi   |    people during three thousand years.~ROMESH DUTT.~UNIVERSITY