Book, Chapter

  1   1, 1 |           THE RIGHTEOUS CITY~Rich in royal worth and valour, rich in
  2   1, 1 |        sprung of ancient Solar Race,~Royal rishi in his duty, saintly
  3   1, 1 |        houses rich in fame,~Loved of royal Dasa-ratha to his happy
  4   1, 2 |             their shame.~Viswa-mitra royal rishi, Rama true and Lakshman
  5   1, 2 |              old,~Spake in pride the royal rishi: "Monarch of Videha'
  6   1, 2 |              shown."~Janak spake his royal mandate to his lords and
  7   1, 2 |         peers begun,~"Be it shewn to royal Rama, Dasa-ratha's righteous
  8   1, 2 |              to send,~Holy saint and royal rishi, here is Janak's ancient
  9   1, 2 |          their terror woke,~And with royal grace and greetings Janak
 10   1, 2 |      faithful wife~Grant us leave, O royal rishi, grant us blessings
 11   1, 2 |              s distant city with the royal message went.~
 12   1, 3 |          Ayodhya's city went,~And by royal mandate bidden stepped within
 13   1, 3 |             gallant Lakshman, in the royal palace dwell,~And our brother
 14   1, 4 |              way,~Ride in front with royal riches, gold and gems in
 15   1, 4 |          monarch ride,~Harness to my royal chariot strong and stately
 16   1, 4 |            welcome came to greet the royal band,~Joyously Videha's
 17   1, 4 |           clear:~"Hast thou come, my royal brother, on my house to
 18   1, 4 |            journey, pride of Raghu's royal race?~Welcome! for Mithila'
 19   1, 4 |             Mithila's people seek my royal guest to greet,~Welcome!
 20   1, 4 |            his purpose high,~And his royal love responding, Dasa-ratha
 21   1, 4 |              an honour to our race!"~Royal grace and kingly greeting,
 22   1, 4 |          obeisance, humbly touch his royal feet,~And the night is filled
 23   1, 5 |              said:~"List, O king! my royal father, monarch of Kaikeya'
 24   1, 5 |          that youth of valour, by my royal father sent,~To Ayodhya'
 25   1, 5 |       Kautuka rite,~And beside their royal father piously the princes
 26   1, 5 |          expectant? Free to him this royal dome,~Since my kingdom is
 27   2, 1 |             blest,~And from lifelong royal duties now he sought repose
 28   2, 2 |             umbrella, seated on this royal throne,~I have toiled to
 29   2, 2 |            duly made,~Riding -on the royal tusker in the white umbrella'
 30   2, 2 |            of the war,~Riding on his royal tusker or his all-resistless
 31   2, 2 |            willing ear!~Happy is the royal father who hath such a righteous
 32   2, 3 |            the festive day,~Till the royal bards and minstrels chanted
 33   2, 3 |           Dasa-ratha born of Raghu's royal race,~In the fulness of
 34   2, 3 |           Dasa-ratha king of Raghu's royal race,~We shall see his son
 35   2, 3 |        consecration and to share the royal feast!~And the rolling tide
 36   2, 4 |            eldest, fill his father's royal throne,~What alarms thee,
 37   2, 4 |           empire, vainly decked with royal grace,~Friendless, joyless,
 38   2, 5 |           crowned at sunrise, so did royal bards proclaim,~Every rite
 39   2, 5 |      vanished fair,~Found her not in royal chamber, found her not in
 40   2, 5 |             his fate,~Rich reward or royal vengeance shall upon thy
 41   2, 5 |       Dasa-ratha, troth and word and royal oath,~Three and thirty Gods
 42   2, 5 |           poor Kaikeyi speak,~And if royal deeds redeem not what thy
 43   2, 5 |            deeds redeem not what thy royal lips did say,~Victim to
 44   2, 6 |           the Queen Kaikeyi: "If thy royal heart repent,~Break thy
 45   2, 6 |            plighted promise, let thy royal faith be rent,~Ever known
 46   2, 6 |           the Queen Kaikeyi: "If thy royal heart repent,~Break thy
 47   2, 6 |            plighted promise, let thy royal faith be rent,~Truth-abiding
 48   2, 7 |       auspicious star?~Duteously the royal consorts on the loving monarch
 49   2, 7 |         accent escaped thee thus his royal heart to wring,~Speak, my
 50   2, 7 |              unborn,~I had saved thy royal father, he a gracious boon
 51   2, 7 |          stirred,~He would break his royal promise as a caitiff breaks
 52   2, 7 |         loved and honoured, should a royal vow be broke,~If the true
 53   2, 7 |           anguish which obscures his royal brow,~If thy feeble bosom
 54   2, 7 |          purpose fail,~Unredeemed is royal promise and unspoken is
 55   2, 7 |              free,~Speak my father's royal promise, hold me by his
 56   2, 7 |              father plighted and his royal words were fair,~I have
 57   2, 7 |        banished far!~If thy father's royal mandate thou wouldst list
 58   3, 1 |          devoted Sita! daughter of a royal line,~Part we now, for years
 59   3, 1 |            of Rama's claim,~Since my royal father willeth,--Bharat
 60   3, 1 |        endearment sweetly serve each royal dame,~Cherish Bharat and
 61   3, 1 | jungle-rangers rove,~Dearer than the royal palace, where I share my
 62   3, 3 |           and thy love!~Unto all the royal ladies Rama his obeisance
 63   3, 4 |        chariot-driver waiting by the royal car,~"Haste thee, mighty-destined
 64   3, 4 |           Sumantra, slowly drive the royal car,~We would once more
 65   3, 4 |            on Rama, pride of Raghu's royal race,~Meanwhile ancient
 66   3, 4 |       faltering footstep go,~Used to royal pomp and splendour, stricken
 67   3, 4 |            mandate, stop not for the royal train,~Parting slow is lengthened
 68   3, 4 |          rapid chariot flew,~And the royal chiefs and courtiers round
 69   3, 6 |            rest.~Morning dawned, the royal chariot Rama would no further
 70   3, 6 |             town,~Doffing then their royal garments Rama and his brother
 71   3, 6 |              the sacred wave.~And by royal Rama bidden strong Nishadas
 72   3, 6 |          Videha's king,~Exiled by my royal father in the wilderness
 73   3, 6 |           kind and courteous welcome royal strangers greeted well,~
 74   4, 1 |        Chitra-kuta's peaceful scene.~Royal guards and Saint Vasishtha
 75   4, 1 |            tresses cluster round his royal head,~Is this he whose royal
 76   4, 1 |         royal head,~Is this he whose royal yajnas filled the earth
 77   4, 1 |              whose brow and forehead royal gem and jewel graced,~Heir
 78   4, 2 |           the lofty mandate from his royal lips that fell,~And the
 79   4, 2 |           flying car,~Guard Kosala's royal treasure, make thy gifts
 80   4, 2 |           and spotless as befits thy royal line,~And to save the good
 81   4, 2 |       ancient empire, son of Raghu's royal race!~For our ancient Law
 82   4, 2 |             mandate and to serve thy royal will,~As a pupil, as a brother,
 83   4, 2 |              empire, king of Raghu's royal race!"~Weeping, on the feet
 84   4, 3 |         Vasishtha, with each widowed royal dame,~Unto Rama's hermit-cottage
 85   4, 3 |              homage bent before each royal dame,~And they blessed the
 86   4, 3 |             loving breast!~Torn from royal hall and mansions, ranger
 87   4, 3 |           strayed,~Hast thou, Rama's royal consort, lived a homeless
 88   4, 3 |              empire, dark is Raghu's royal house,~When in woods my
 89   4, 3 |           Rama wanders and my Rama's royal spouse!~Sweetly, gentle
 90   4, 4 |              empire, lord of Raghu's royal race?~Dasa-ratha claims
 91   4, 4 |      darksome jangle shall be Rama's royal hall,~For a righteous father'
 92   4, 5 |          elder spoke:~"Rama, true to royal mercy, true to duties of
 93   5, 1 |            hut the holy sages to the royal guests assigned,~Brought
 94   5, 1 |            holy rite,~Portion of the royal INDRA, fount of justice
 95   5, 1 |              younger, duteous to his royal will,~And we pass these
 96   5, 1 |              speaker of a lie.~And a royal guest and wanderer doth
 97   5, 2 |             to me the mandate by thy royal father given,~Not unseen
 98   5, 4 |            and bracing winter to the royal Rama dear,~Like a bride
 99   5, 4 |             tresses Bharat wears the royal crown,~Scorning regal state
100   5, 4 |          Queen Kaikeyi, Dasa-ratha's royal spouse,~Deep in craft, hath
101   5, 4 |        brought disaster on Ayodhya's royal house!"~"Speak not thus,"
102   5, 4 |             Bharat, honour still the royal dame,~Fixed in purpose and
103   6, 1 |           Rama lofty-fronted, with a royal visage graced,~Like KANDARPA
104   6, 1 |             below.~Know my brothers, royal Ravan, Lanka's lord from
105   6, 2 |             her pride,~I am slave of royal Rama, would'st thou be a
106   6, 3 |           humbled Surpa-nakha to her royal brother hied,~Spake her
107   6, 3 |          Sita's tender care,~And our royal brother Bharat oft will
108   6, 3 |            speed,~And the queens and royal mothers pause the gentle
109   6, 5 |             Rakshas hold their sway?~Royal balls and stately mansions
110   6, 6 |        seeming kind,--~"I am born of royal Janak, ruler of Videha's
111   6, 6 |            done,~Wished to crown the royal Rama as his Heir and Regent
112   6, 6 |              nor a righteous rishi," royal Ravan made reply,~"Leader
113   6, 6 |         golden lustre, Sita, wins my royal heart,~Be a sharer of my
114   6, 6 |             of queenly beauty on the royal Ravan wait,~Thou shalt be
115   6, 6 |             by boundless ocean is of royal towns the best,~Seated in
116   6, 6 |            accents answered thus the royal dame:~"Knowest thou Rama
117   6, 7 |            Ravan torn away!~And thou royal bird, Jatayu, witness Ravan'
118   7, 1 |       Dasa-ratha banished from their royal home,~Duteous to their father'
119   7, 2 |           and Sugriva came,~Where in royal town Kishkindha, Bali ruled
120   7, 2 |             his greed.~Mighty is his royal comrade,--listen, husband,
121   7, 4 |             fragrant unguents and in royal garments gay,~He shall with
122   7, 4 |            city wall,~And assume the royal sceptre in thy father's
123   7, 4 |              sceptre in thy father's royal hall.~Gallant Angad, son
124   7, 4 |            were vain,~Enter then thy royal city, fair Kishkindha be
125   7, 4 |           fair,~Priests received the royal bounty, gift and garment
126   7, 4 |              flame,~And on throne of royal splendour placed the chief
127   7, 4 |        splendour placed the chief of royal fame!~On a high and open
128   7, 4 |            young Angad sharer of his royal throne,~Gay and bannered
129   8, 1 |            and bold!~By the rich and royal mansion Hanuman his eyes
130   8, 2 |              war,~Rich in steeds and royal tuskers, arméd men and battle
131   8, 2 |           monarch he,~Robed in every royal virtue, great in peace in
132   8, 2 |              empire and his father's royal seat,~Now Sagriva's countless
133   8, 3 |           far Ayodhya, from Kausalya royal dame,~From the true and
134   8, 3 |             fame,~Didst thou hear if royal Bharat leads his forces
135   9, 9 |          Raksha craven-hearted by my royal hands had bled!"~
136  10, 1 |         their heart!~Vainly then the royal brothers fought the cloud-enshrouded
137  10, 2 |             war!~Soon they harnessed royal coursers and they took the
138  10, 3 |           strife,~Wherefore with thy royal prowess seek the humble
139  10, 4 |             me go,~I would fight the royal Rama, or to die or slay
140  10, 6 |          anger spake,~"Brother of my royal father, stealing thus my
141  10, 7 |              lord.~Woman's blood the royal sabre on that fatal day
142  10, 8 |             in Lanka's city, Ravan's royal best was heard,~Street and
143  10, 10|              chariot ride,~Take this royal bow and quiver, wear this
144  11, 2 |           Sita stood,~Courted oft by royal Ravan in the forest far
145  11, 4 |         their stately gilded litters royal dames and damsels came,~
146  11, 4 |           battle car,~Heavy tread of royal tuskers and the beat of
147  11, 4 |        empire, these have filled thy royal throne,~Faithful to his
148  11, 4 |       rightful empire and assume thy royal crown,~Faithful to his trust
149  11, 5 |           lofty music sounded in the royal hall,~Fourteen years of
150  11, 5 |              fragrant creeper on his royal brow they place,~And his
151  12, 1 |            stately mansions were for royal guests assigned,~Peaceful
152  12, 2 |         mighty feast,~Sing it to the royal ladies,--they shall to the
153  12, 2 |              wealth on earth!~If the royal Rama questions and your
154  12, 3 |           soul was stirred,~With his royal guests and courtiers still
155  12, 3 |          from first to ending if thy royal heart incline!"~"Be it so,"
156  12, 3 |            courtiers slowly left the royal hall,~Eager was his heart
157  12, 5 |            and gloomy jungle were my royal children born,~Help me,
158  12, 5 |             bright Immortals to that royal Yajna came,~Hen of every
159  12, 5 |          celestial blossoms o'er the royal chambers flew.~Sita, saw
160  12, 5 |          gathered from afar,~Saw her royal lord and husband bright