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1 Epi | the Epic, commenced after 1000 B.C., had assumed something
2 Epi | appeared as early as A.D. 1100. Northern India and Bengal
3 Epi | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,~ 13th August 1899.~ ~
4 Epi | Albert King of Sardinia in 1843-67, first introduced this
5 Epi | Vidyaratna in Calcutta in 1869-85. The talented and indefatigable
6 Epi | LONDON,~ 13th August 1899.~ ~
7 3 | Iii., liv., lv., lvi., 1xiii., and lxiv. of Book ii.
8 Epi | King of Sardinia in 1843-67, first introduced this great
9 Epi | arranged in 2,000 verses and in 84 short sections, may possibly
10 Epi | Vidyaratna in Calcutta in 1869-85. The talented and indefatigable
11 Epi | language appeared as early as A.D. 1100. Northern India and
12 Epi | thrilling, as the fall of Abhimanyu, the vengeance of Arjun,
13 3, 1 | jungle, bid me by my lord abide,~Car and steed and gilded
14 1, 1 | might,~And each man in truth abiding lived a long and peaceful
15 10, 12| fire,~Slow and sad with due abititions mourners left the funeral
16 5, 1 | spake their peaceful pure abode,~Seat of pious rite and
17 7 | With that contempt for aboriginal races which has marked civilized
18 Epi | are not the translator's abridgment of a long poem, but selected
19 7, 5 | erodes its margin, Sita's absence breaks my heart,~Rain and
20 Epi | the true and dutiful, was accepted as the Spirit of God descended
21 Epi | his misdeed of past years, accepts his present suffering as
22 3 | and the faithful Lakshman accompanied Rama in his exile, and the
23 Epi | ideal prince, brave and accomplished, devoted to his duty, unfaltering
24 2, 2 | consultation, joyously with one accord,~Freely and in measured
25 End | and his brothers was in accordance with Hindu ideas of the
26 7, 1 | thought and action, we will f ace our common foe!"~And they
27 Epi | lent a higher lustre to the achievements of these gifted races, and
28 Epi | who seeks for a practical acquaintance with the great Indian poem
29 1, 6 | name was honoured for her acts of righteous grace,~"Take
30 5, 4 | Vain this ancient impious adage-Bharat spurns his mother's guile,~
31 10, 3 | vainly struggled in her adamantine chain,~Wrathful Rakshas
32 Epi | people. It is necessary to add that when the modern languages
33 10, 7 | clime,~And thy bright name adds a lustre to the glorious
34 Epi | the great Epic; a lofty admiration of what is true and ennobling
35 Epi | the same plan which was adopted in my translation of the
36 4, 2 | Midnight is the radiant Moon adored!~And thy father's ancient
37 5, 4 | pale~Brightening as the day advances piercing through the darksome
38 6, 1 | And, forlove makes bold afemale, thus didshe her thoughts
39 Epi | held by Ravan is a poor affair in comparison with the Council
40 Epi | of Sanscrit, metres, and afforded a fatal facility to poets
41 Epi | Hindu character in every age--~As a father to his children
42 10, 2 | lifelong sorrow, bless her agéd eyes once more,~Sita's love!
43 5 | Deccan, three thousand years ago. He was pioneer, discoverer
44 Epi | that misdeed, and dies in agony for his banished son. The
45 5, 4 | might,~With the rite of agrayana pious men their sins dispel,~
46 10, 3 | Lakshman's human weapons aimed with skill-directed well,~
47 10, 3 | him lifeless on the plain,~Akampan unshaken warrior issued
48 Epi | the awakening jealousy and alarm of a wife and a mother,
49 Epi | at the expense of Charles Albert King of Sardinia in 1843-
50 Epi | be he invoked as Rama or Ali." "The city of the Hindu
51 2, 4 | joyless, long shall wander, alien from his land and race!~
52 Epi | the prince and the peasant alike, that the Ramayana bases
53 8, 3 | godlike wrath,~Deadly YAMA, all-destroying, pales before his peerless
54 1, 2 | iron car~In which rested all-inviolate Janak's dreaded bow of war,~
55 3, 8 | offence, O mighty monarch, all-unknowing have I done,~That with quick
56 3 | Bharad-vaja, which stood where Allahabad now stands, on the confluence
57 12, 2 | fruits and berries will allay your thirst and toil,~Gentle
58 12 | however, Sita is not an allegory; she lives in their hearts
59 1, 4 | Raghu thus in loving bonds allied,~Sacrifice and rites auspicious
60 Epi | battles waged by Rama and his allies there is no incident so
61 12, 2 | s deathless Lay,~Ask no alms, receive no riches, nor
62 | already
63 2, 7 | grace,~Wherefore clouds his altered visage, wherefore tears
64 | always
65 10, 6 | valour Lakshman drew his bow amain,~Slayed the Raksha's steeds
66 Epi | its valour and heroism, ambition and lofty chivalry. The
67 6, 2 | to thy passion seek his ample-hearted love! "~Surpa-nakha passion-laden
68 Epi | the same scene, fully and amply described in one canto,
69 11, 5 | lived rejoicing in their old ancestral.~
70 Epi | have been left to us by the ancients. And their researches and
71 2, 1 | Mansions meet for prince andchieftain to his guests the monarch
72 7, 6 | Search the empire of the Andhras, of the sister-nations three,--~
73 7, 6 | Pundra region of the brave,~Anga rich in corn and cattle
74 End | Lakshman had two sons, Angada and Chandraketu. The former
75 2, 5 | s dangers brave,~Vangas, Angas and Magadhas, warlike Matsyas
76 3, 3 | kissed his head,~Stilled her anguish-laden bosom and in trembling accents
77 4, 1 | Bharat, for his heart was anguish-rent,~As before the feet of Rama
78 7, 1 | and faithful wife,~And the anguish-stricken husband seeks thy friendship
79 2, 4 | Kausalya, they will soon anoint her son,~When on Pushya'
80 4 | have surpassed. But Rama answers with the fervour of a righteous,
81 6, 3 | and the gentle roebuck, antelope of beauty rare,~I have seen
82 2, 3 | lightsome song,~With their antics and their music pleased
83 3, 7 | mighty black-buck, with the antlered trophy came,~Placed the
84 11, 5 | and smiling vale,~Loom and anvil gave their produce and the
85 3, 4 | anguish as they followed him apace,~And their eyes were fixed
86 Epi | dimensions of the poem, apparently after the fatal process
87 End | rishi Durvasa, who always appears on earth to create mischief.
88 5, 4 | snow,'~True to name and appellation doth in whiter garments
89 2, 2 | hailed the mandate with applauses long and loud,~As the peafowls
90 Epi | true to nature that they apply to all races and nations.~
91 Epi | domestic jealousies, which are appreciated by the prince and the peasant
92 9, 2 | hermits, helpless men?~Hanuman approached in secret, stealing like
93 2, 1 | and vigour spoke his end approaching nigh,~And he witnessed Rama'
94 5 | the exiles comes in most appropriately on the eve of stirring events
95 12 | might take her back with the approval of his people.~Sita came.
96 2, 3 | might his people's toil approve,~So that sweet and soft-eyed
97 2, 5 | earth,~Like a fallen fair Apsara, beauteous nymph of heavenly
98 1, 1 | Strong-barred gates and lofty arches, tower and dome and turret
99 2, 5 | gloom,~Carne the old and ardent monarch heedless of his
100 4, 6 | for deeper forests on his arduous duty bent,~Wandering with
101 10, 1 | slain,~Flooded battle's dark arena like the floods of summer
102 1, 6 | bowls and shining salvers, arghya plates for honoured guest,~
103 3, 6 | he brought the milk and argya where the guests observant
104 2, 4 | love,~And a danger thus ariseth if the elder wins the throne,~
105 Epi | her own wickedness. She arouses the slumbering jealousy
106 6, 3 | lonely glen,~Oft waylaid by artful Rakshas are by deep devices
107 11 | couplets of this Book--is an article of belief and a living tradition
108 5, 2 | truth abides,~As the star of Arundhati in her mansion still resides,~
109 7, 5 | masses, ladder-like of smooth ascent,~One could almost reach
110 5, 1 | Forest songsters knew the asrama and the wild deer crept
111 10, 3 | missile, vainly did with trees assail,~Onward sped the conquering
112 12 | her purity in the great assembly, so that he might take her
113 1, 2 | Pleased at heart the sage assented, envoys by the monarch sent,~
114 6, 7 | car celestial yoked with asses winged with speed,~Golden
115 Epi | Kosalas and Videhas was associated with all that is great and
116 4, 4 | scheming worldly-wise!~If assuming virtue's mantle I should
117 9, 8 | VIII - INDRAJIT'S ASSURANCE~Indrajit the son of Ravan
118 4, 4 | false thy reason leads astray,~Tortuous wisdom brings
119 11, 2 | Slow the red flames rolled asunder, God of Fire incarnate came,~
120 5, 3 | wafts a fragrance rare,~Aswa-karna and Khadira by the Sami
121 7, 3 | flag is lowered when the Aswin winds prevail,~Lofty Bali
122 12 | once more.~Sita found an asylum in the hermitage of Valmiki,
123 10, 5 | Hanuman slew on the plain,~Atikaya, tall of stature, was by
124 Epi | explained above, is not to attempt a complete translation of
125 2, 7 | Truth inspires each deed attempted and each word by monarchs
126 3, 2 | quiver Lakshman will on them attend,~Where the wild deer range
127 Epi | food from door to door, attended on his preceptor as a menial,
128 11, 1 | splendour and in gems and rich attire,~Sita vanished in the red
129 4, 6 | Vedic Bard and ancient sage.~Auasuya, wife of Atri, votaress
130 9, 1 | Rama's prisoned queen,~And audacious in his purpose and resistless
131 9, 5 | Hanuman who hides in wood,~Augad and the proud Sugriva soon
132 2, 6 | for other boon, Kaikeyi, aught my sea-girt empire yields,~
133 Epi | COLLEGE, LONDON,~ 13th August 1899.~ ~
134 5, 4 | Came and passed the golden autumn in the forest's gloomy shade,~
135 3, 6 | ancient hermits, hundred autumns who have done,~By their
136 7, 6 | towns of famed Dasarna and Avanti's rocky shore,~And the uplands
137 9, 9 | hermits holy in their vow,~Ave. so long shall near relations
138 2, 4 | tremble for thy Bharat, Heaven avert untimely woe!~Happy is the
139 11, 1 | and husband turns his cold averted eyes,~FuneraI flame dispels
140 5, 4 | the lordly tusker still avoids the freezing drink,~Wild
141 10, 8 | Lanka did the monarch's ears awail,~And a mighty thought of
142 4, 6 | Where with anxious heart awaited Rama prince of righteous
143 7, 3 | shalt go,"~"Nay that fate awaits thee, Bali," spake Sugriva
144 Epi | scheming dependant, the awakening jealousy and alarm of a
145 Epi | jealousy of a woman and awakens the alarms of a mother,
146 2, 6 | soul prevailed,~Stunned awhile remained the monarch, then
147 7, 4 | town restored,~Cleansed b bath and fragrant unguents
148 Epi | Epic, commenced after 1000 B.C., had assumed something like
149 11, 5 | their anguish for their babes by YAMA crost,~Robbers,
150 1, 3 | warriors known to fame,~Baffled in their fruitless effort
151 7, 6 | country of Saurashtras, of Bahlikas strong and brave,~And each
152 Epi | generation in songs and ballads, and weaves them into an
153 7, 6 | groves of cocoa court the balmy western breeze,~Where on
154 1, 4 | came to greet the royal band,~Joyously Videha's monarch
155 7, 1 | take this proffered hand,~Banded by a common sorrow we shall
156 10, 8 | Vultures swooped upon the banner, jackals yelled their doleful
157 3, 2 | wish to stay,~None shall bar the faithful younger when
158 2, 5 | stricken monarch; on the bare and unswept ground,~Trembling
159 6, 5 | serenely fair,~With her bark-clad shape of beauty mantled
160 5, 4 | Boundless fields of wheat and barley are with dewdrops moist
161 2, 4 | children may not reign,~Bharat barred from Rama's empire, vainly
162 Epi | Epics. The Maha-bharata, based on the legends and traditions
163 10, 6 | who leaves his kindred, basely seeks the foemans grace,~
164 Epi | alike, that the Ramayana bases its appeal to the hearts
165 Epi | living faith. It forms the basis of the moral instruction
166 9, 9 | long shall near relations bate us in their inner mind,~
167 7, 5 | bold each peak and mountain bathed in soft descending rain,~
168 10, 1 | I - INDRAJIT'S FIRST BATTLE--THE SERPENT-NOOSE~Darkly
169 1, 4 | chargers, serried foot and battle-car,~Bid my faithful chariot-driver
170 10, 6 | Ravan meets thee on the battle-field,~Stakes his life and throne
171 10, 3 | III - RAVAN'S FIRST BATTLE-THE JAVELIN-STROKE~'Gainst the
172 10, 8 | Wrathful Ravan marked Bibhishan battling by the foeman's side,~And
173 6, 7 | in his wrath,~Fought with beak and bloody talons to impede
174 8, 1 | beauty in the yellow sunlight beamed!~Brightly shone the red
175 4, 1 | hollow caverns where the wild beasts make their home,~Mark the
176 10 | warriors was Rama; he was never beaten by an open foe, never conquered
177 2, 6 | ended, cold and still his beating heart!~Sunless roll the
178 7, 6 | and the best,~Search where beats the sleepless ocean on the
179 | become
180 2, 6 | Woman's winsome charms bedeck thee, and a woman's peerless
181 11, 1 | Sita true and lost,~For bedecked in golden splendour and
182 8, 1 | of dazzling beauty still bedecks her peerless face.~Though
183 10, 7 | Indrajit shall watch his bedside, Indrajit shall close his
184 3, 7 | her store the faithless bee!~Oft the lone and startled
185 9, 9 | soothing words are vain,~Bees are tempted by the honey
186 10, 4 | away!"~Like a mountain's beetling turret Kumbha-karna stout
187 10, 6 | fought,~Neither quailed bef ore his f oeman, pause nor
188 6, 1 | livelong day.~And it so befell, a maiden, dweller of the
189 2, 4 | back, Kaikeyi, for they ill befit the clay,~And when clouds
190 4, 1 | his pious purpose though begirt by weapons dire,~Clad in
191 3 | still called Sita-phal, being the reputed food of the
192 2, 5 | that guard us both,~Mortal beings and Immortal,--witness ye
193 10, 5 | SECOND BATTLE~Still around beleaguered Lanka girdled Rama's living
194 Epi | shadow forth the ideals and beliefs of interesting periods in
195 Epi | cardinal idea of One God, and believes the heroes of the ancient
196 3, 4 | neighed and shook their bright bells, elephants returned a roar!~
197 3, 7 | walked and wandered and the belt of forest passed,~Slew the
198 2, 5 | with seats of silver, ivory bench and golden throne.~Through
199 5, 4 | the drooping water-lily bends her head beneath the frost,~
200 Epi | Ramayana is a classic in the Bengali language, and Sridhar's
201 12, 3 | bounteous monarch, forest life beseem not well!"~"Noble children!"
202 5, 1 | each guest,~Food and drink beseeming hermits on the wearied princes
203 6, 3 | fill,~As I mark his skin bespangled and his antlers' sapphire
204 7, 5 | draught of nectar is the rain -besprinkled breeze,~Fragrant with the
205 3, 2 | treasure to the holy priests bestow,~To the son of saint Vasishtha,
206 11, 1 | firmly sealed,~And his eye betraved no weakness, word disclosed
207 6, 6 | mind~That she saw a base betrayer in a hermit seeming kind,--~"
208 3, 8 | spot I led,~Long and loud bewailed the parents by the cold
209 6, 2 | still revere thy dame?~But beware a Raksha's fury and an injured
210 5, 1 | height,~SOMA and the radiant BHAGA, and KUVERA lord of gold,~
211 11, 3 | in her might '~Where in Bharad-waja's asram passed we, love,
212 10, 8 | axe and pike,~Sataghni and bhindipala, quoit and discus quick
213 11, 3 | bestowed her heart and hand,~On Bibhisban good and faitbful, crowned
214 7, 5 | fastness doth my sorrowing Sita bide,~But Sugriva true and faithful
215 9, 9 | heart,~Winter clouds are big with thunder but they shed
216 7, 6 | void of stream or wooded bill,~Till, you reach the white
217 10, 2 | husband! didst thou cross the billowy sea,~Didst thou challenge
218 9, 9 | their captors catch and bind.--~Not by fire and feeble
219 2, 7 | true and righteous Rama binds him by his father's vow,~
220 3, 7 | Lakshman slew a mighty black-buck, with the antlered trophy
221 2, 6 | which Bharat doth not covet,-blackened byhis mother's sin?~Shall
222 2, 6 | spirit stains thy heart with blackest guile?~Ever since the day,
223 6, 6 | cobra while his dying victim bleeds,~Aye, uproot the solid mountain
224 12, 3 | a monarch's willing car,~Blended with the simple music dulcet
225 9, 1 | varying plans and reasons blending lead unto the right,~Last
226 7, 1 | and thy aid,~Mutual sorrow blends your fortunes, be ye friends
227 5, 2 | Agastya!" answered Rama, "blesséd is my banished life,~For
228 1, 4 | And we take his boon and blessina as an honour to our race!"~
229 12, 5 | cool and scented breezes blew,~Fragrance of celestial
230 11, 5 | their season, never came the blighting gale,~Rich in crop and rich
231 2, 5 | the sun's reviving ray!"~Blinded was the ancient husband
232 2, 4 | madness clouds thy heart and blinds thine eye,~Courting thus
233 10, 8 | slain,~Hungry wolves and blood-beaked vultures feed upon the ghastly
234 10, 2 | on the field of battle, blood-ensanguined in their face,~They shall
235 6, 7 | wrath,~Fought with beak and bloody talons to impede the Raksha'
236 2, 5 | life!~Like a bright and blossoming creeper rudely severed from
237 10, 12| And the zephyrs gently blowing fanned the bright and blazing
238 7, 3 | anguish rose,~And with mutual blows they battled,--brothers
239 1, 6 | sweet-eyed Sita,--bridal blush upon her brow,~Rama in his
240 10, 6 | none to prate or speak,~Boastful word is coward's weapon,
241 Epi | India, like ancient Greece, boasts of two great Epics. The
242 10, 8 | Birds gave forth their boding voices and the earth confessed
243 10, 4 | heaving ocean Kumbha-karna's body fell,~And as shaken by a
244 10, 11| dart of INDRA, fatal as the bolt of heaven,~Wrapped in smoke
245 2, 4 | state,~And Kaikeyi like a bond-slave must upon her rival wait!~
246 11 | last few couplets of this Book--is an article of belief
247 3, 6 | towns and peopled hamlets border on this hermitage,~And to
248 4, 1 | targets broad and ample bossed with rings of yellow gold,~
249 5, 1 | Rama loosened there his bow-string and the peaceful scene surveyed,~
250 1, 6 | sacred honey filled,~Sanka bowls and shining salvers, arghya
251 12 | recognised his sons in the boy-minstrels, and his heart yearned once
252 3, 8 | or utterance caused thy boyish bosom smart,~But a feeble
253 7, 3 | like the forest fire!~Bali braced his warlike garments and
254 5, 4 | charms:~"Comes the bright and bracing winter to the royal Rama
255 1, 1 | nishkas graced,~Cheat and braggart and deceiver lived not in
256 Epi | of India. Their elaborate Brahmanas or Commentaries on the Vedas
257 8, 1 | ungathered hung behind in single braid,~And her gentle eye was
258 8, 1 | garments clothe her person, braided is her raven hair,~Matted
259 7, 1 | upon the common seat,~And a branch of scented Chandan with
260 4, 1 | lea,~Store of horns and branching antlers, fire-wood for the
261 7, 5 | almost deem them sword-cuts branded by some heavenly fire!~Mark
262 1, 1 | tower and dome and turret brave--~Rose in proud and peerless
263 3, 8 | my closing eyes,~And for bravo and banished Rama wings
264 Epi | village through the length and breadth of India.~More than this,
265 1, 2 | II - MITHILA, AND THE BREAKING OF THE BOW~Janak monarch
266 5, 3 | this margin, Chakravakas breathe of love,~And the timid deer
267 10, 2 | thy all-resistless course?~Breathes upon the earth no warrior
268 2, 7 | his truth and virtue fail!~Breathless mused the anxious Rama,--
269 12, 5 | splendour cool and scented breezes blew,~Fragrance of celestial
270 11, 3 | of Rama's fame,--~'Rama's Bridge' to distant ages shall our
271 3, 4 | and obey."~Queenly Sita bright-apparelled, with a strong and trusting
272 5, 4 | the moon subdued and pale~Brightening as the day advances piercing
273 3, 1 | and in suffering, woman's brightest fame be thine~Keep thy fasts
274 4 | depicts a free-thinker of the broadest type. He ridicules the ideas
275 8, 4 | Sugriva, Rama shall not brook delay,~While in distant
276 2, 3 | the censer lit,~Men with broom and sprinkled water swept
277 7, 1 | be ended ere it sees thy brotherfall,~As by lurid lightning severed
278 3, 7 | unseen before.~Still with brotherlv affection Lakshman brought
279 5, 3 | the timid deer of jungle browse within the shady grove,~
280 3, 6 | peaceful courtyard fearless browsed the jungle deer,~All unharmed
281 6, 3 | deer of wondrous radiance browsing by the forest brake!"~"Much
282 12, 3 | limpid water from the parent bubble spring!~Were the boys no
283 10, 1 | Streams of red blood warm and bubbling issued from the countless
284 3, 7 | brought each dewy spray,~Bud or blossom of wild beauty
285 End | Oudh at the time of the Buddha in the fifth and sixth centuries
286 6, 7 | his wrath,~As the planet Budha captures fair Rohini in
287 10, 1 | Sound of trumpet and of bugle, drum and horn and echoing
288 3 | The past is not dead and buried in India, it lives in the
289 9 | but had also managed to burn down a great portion of
290 3, 5 | their hearts with anguish burned,~Sorrow-laden and lamenting
291 10, 2 | widow's nameless sorrow burst in widow's mournful cry:~
292 12, 5 | Oh! her woman~s heart is bursting, and her day on earth is
293 8, 1 | rustic beauty peeped through bushes green and fair,~Blossoms
294 Epi | of Draupadi with all the bustle and tumult of a real contest
295 2, 6 | doth not covet,-blackened byhis mother's sin?~Shall I see
296 4 | portions of Sections xcix., c., ci., civ., cviii.. cix.,
297 Epi | indefatigable Mr. Ralph Griffith, C.I.E., who has devoted a lifetime
298 6 | results of our misdeeds; calamities are brought about by our
299 6 | on the eve of the great calamity which clouded her life ever
300 6, 6 | hungry lion while upon the calf he feeds,~Touch the fang
301 6, 4 | s danger with a cold and callous heart,~Courtest thou the
302 10, 8 | of battle car,~Mule and camel fit for burden and the fiery
303 7, 5 | blossom, scented by the camphor trees,~Fresh and bold each
304 3, 7 | with the bent and twisting cane,~And a mighty raft constructed,
305 4, 2 | tarnished fame!~Thou alone canst wipe this insult by a deed
306 Epi | and amply described in one canto, repeated again in the two
307 8, 3 | Hurls destruction on my captor like the world-consuming
308 9, 9 | elephants of jungle how their captors catch and bind.--~Not by
309 6, 3 | beauteous object thou caust capture in thy way,~As thy Sita'
310 6, 7 | wrath,~As the planet Budha captures fair Rohini in his path,~
311 5, 1 | our foremost honour claim,~Car-borne kings protect the wide earth
312 3, 7 | trophy came,~Placed the carcass consecrated by the altar'
313 Epi | nevertheless holds fast to the cardinal idea of One God, and believes
314 5, 3 | Where the bank with soft caresses Godavari's waters lave!~
315 10, 8 | arose in godlike might,~Carless, steedless, wounded Ravan
316 10, 4 | Dreadful was the field of carnage, loud the cry of battle
317 2, 5 | eclipse casts its gloom,~Carne the old and ardent monarch
318 6, 3 | sake,~I will as a golden carpet spread the skin upon the
319 5, 1 | sabre golden-hilted in its case of burnished gold,~Not unworthy
320 4, 1 | as INDRA's bow of might,~Cased in broad unfailing quivers
321 1, 1 | writ ordained,~Pure each caste in due observance, stainless
322 3, 8 | lapse of years and seasons casting back its death-like shade!~
323 7, 6 | the western ocean wave,~Castles girt by barren mountains,
324 9, 9 | jungle how their captors catch and bind.--~Not by fire
325 10, 4 | combat, soon the Raksha caught and turned his foe around~
326 6, 3 | that beauteous object thou caust capture in thy way,~As thy
327 4, 2 | thy forts with sleepless caution with the engines of the
328 6, 3 | gloomy gorges vainly held his cautious way,~Vainly set the snare
329 2, 7 | causeway when the waters ceased to flow!~Truth inspires
330 1, 5 | from Vedic saints of old,~Celebrate the happy wedding; be the
331 Epi | from distant regions. Their celebrated Universities (Parishads)
332 12, 5 | flew.~Sita, saw the bright Celestials, monarchs gathered from
333 2, 3 | garland, merry maids the censer lit,~Men with broom and
334 1, 6 | by artists skilled,~Holy censers fresh and fragrant, cups
335 7, 6 | Magadh rich in peopled centres, Pundra region of the brave,~
336 Epi | monotheism underlying the various ceremonials in honour of various images
337 7 | industries, the sacred rites and ceremonies, and the civic and political
338 10 | And the reader will mark a certain method in the poet's estimate
339 9, 6 | saintly Sita given,~She who chained in Lanka's prison pleads
340 Epi | universe?"~The reformer Chaitanya preached the same sublime
341 3, 7 | raised the altar and the chaitya's sacred fane.~Evening spread
342 11, 4 | Let our city shrines and chaityas with a lofty music shake,~
343 5, 3 | ducks frequent this margin, Chakravakas breathe of love,~And the
344 10, 3 | all-resistless foe,~Boldly challenged Lanka's monarch as he held
345 10, 11| Raghu's valiant son,--~"Champion of the true and righteous!
346 3, 2 | obey,~And a thousand arméd champions own her high and queenly
347 6 | cottage, and then finds his chance for stealing away the unprotected
348 7, 5 | checkered sky,~Like a lover chandan-painted in each breeze it heaves
349 Epi | out by the venerable Hem Chandra Vidyaratna in Calcutta in
350 End | latter founded the city of Chandrakanti in the Malwa country.~Satrughna
351 End | had two sons, Angada and Chandraketu. The former founded the
352 10, 7 | But the course of nature changes, and the father weeps the
353 3, 3 | Who with changeful fortune changing oft ignore the plighted
354 12, 2 | in this sacrificial site,~Chant to all the gathered nations
355 11, 4 | minstrel, bard, and herald chanting glorious deeds of yore,~
356 6, 7 | warning,--false and foul the charge I made,~Pardon, friend,
357 10, 3 | fierce and fiery Raksha charged with warrior's deathless
358 10, 8 | prowess soon the gallant charges slew,~Dashina from his useless
359 2, 5 | thy regal sway!~Rolls my chariot-wheel revolving from the sea to
360 11, 4 | chiefs and nobles bore.~Chariots, cars, and gallant chargers
361 Epi | Gorresio, at the expense of Charles Albert King of Sardinia
362 9, 8 | from their distant home,~Chased from throne and father's
363 Epi | fourteen years in exile, and is chastened by privations and misfortunes,
364 6, 7 | Thou art king and stern chastiser of each deed of sin and
365 1, 1 | necks with nishkas graced,~Cheat and braggart and deceiver
366 11, 5 | by YAMA crost,~Robbers, cheats, and gay deceivers tempted
367 10, 2 | the hand of hidden foeman checked thy all-resistless course?~
368 2, 7 | the anguish of a father checks his speech and purpose high,~
369 3, 7 | peacocks send the answering cheer,~Oft the elephant of jungle
370 5, 4 | hamlets wake to life and cheerful toil,~And the peaceful happy
371 3, 5 | Sorrow-laden and lamenting to their cheerless homes returned.~
372 7, 6 | sister-nations three,--~Cholas, Cheras and the Pandyas dwelling
373 10, 7 | woke within his heaving chest,~Like the sun of scorching
374 5, 4 | the silent glade,~When the chilly night was over, once at
375 11, 3 | Dandak forest, view the Chitrakuta hill.~Deathless bard the
376 Epi | heroism, ambition and lofty chivalry. The Ramayana embodies the
377 9, 6 | and the monarch's fatal choice,~Firm in faith and strong
378 7, 6 | sister-nations three,--~Cholas, Cheras and the Pandyas
379 3, 4 | And the narrow path thou choosest is the righteous path to
380 1, 7 | loved her, for their parents chose her as his faithful wife,~
381 10 | Sections xciii., xcvi., ci., cii., ciii., cix., cx., and
382 10 | xciii., xcvi., ci., cii., ciii., cix., cx., and cxiii.
383 End | under somewhat peculiar circumstances. A messenger from heaven
384 End | the founders of the great cities and kingdoms which flourished
385 4 | Sections xcix., c., ci., civ., cviii.. cix., exii., and
386 7 | and ceremonies, and the civic and political life of the
387 2, 4 | succeed,~Mighty were the civil discord if such custom were
388 7 | aboriginal races which has marked civilized conquerors in all ages,
389 6, 6 | the scheming Queen Kaikeyi claimed a long-forgotten boon,~That
390 1, 2 | accent rose the loud terrific clang,~And the firm earth shook
391 7, 6 | eastern ocean wave.~Seek where clans of skilful weavers dwell
392 4, 3 | they prest,~As a mother clasps a daughter, clasped her
393 7, 3 | knees,~With their nails like claws of tigers and with riven
394 2, 4 | for they ill befit the clay,~And when clouds of sorrow
395 11, 2 | I saw her in her maiden clays of youth,~Have I doubted
396 3, 8 | Dasa-ratha's death in anguish cleanses Dasa-ratha's crime!'~Spake
397 Epi | remarks will be probably made clearer by a comparison of what
398 Epi | endeavour to study fully and clearly its relations of old Hindu
399 10, 4 | the dark and dubious fray,~Cleave through Rama's girdling
400 Epi | tenderest recollections do not cling round the story of Sita'
401 3, 4 | parchéd fields are dry,~Clinging to the rapid chariot, by
402 2, 4 | And he stands too near and closely by a rival brother's throne,~
403 2, 5 | Through Kaikeyi's inner closet lighted with a softened
404 3, 8 | Sumitra, vision falls my closing eyes,~And for bravo and
405 12, 1 | were made unto the needy, cloth by skilful weavers wrought,~
406 8, 1 | entwine!~Hermit's garments clothe her person, braided is her
407 10, 1 | royal brothers fought the cloud-enshrouded foe,~Vainly sought the unseen
408 8, 3 | and root I seek,~By the cloud-obstructing Vindhyas, and by Malya's
409 4, 1 | hermit's matted tresses cluster round his royal head,~Is
410 6, 3 | antlers' sapphire ray,~And his coat of starry radiance glowing
411 9, 9 | foemen or in homes where cobras haunt,~Than with faithless
412 3, 7 | the lone and startled wild cock sounds its clarion full
413 3, 6 | forest; pecked the grain collected near,~And by holy men surrounded '
414 Epi | ROMESH DUTT.~UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,~ 13th August
415 5 | Southern India to Aryan colonization and Aryan religion.~Two
416 5 | and settler,-the Indian Columbus who opened out Southern
417 11, 1 | Risked your fife in endless combats for a sin-polluted bride?~
418 Epi | life as Dante's "Divine Comedy" gives us a picture of the
419 6, 2 | Lakshman, peerless is his comely face,~Dauntless is his warlike
420 10, 7 | battle and thy vengeance cometh soon,~All-resistless in
421 3, 6 | inclineth, here in peace and comfort dwell!"~Spake the rishi
422 Epi | therefore that the Epic, commenced after 1000 B.C., had assumed
423 Epi | Their elaborate Brahmanas or Commentaries on the Vedas were handed
424 Epi | recension with Ramanuja's commentary was brought out by the venerable
425 9, 7 | Vain is grief for crime committed,--offerings to unholy fire,~
426 Epi | bridal of Sita is poor and commonplace, compared with the bridal
427 Epi | scornful reply will scarcely compare with the sublime eloquence
428 Epi | is poor and commonplace, compared with the bridal of Draupadi
429 Epi | poem within a reason able compass will, it is hoped, find
430 6, 4 | art,~In thy semblance of compassion dost thou hide a cruel craft,~
431 Epi | surrounding countries. Their compilations of the old Vedic Hymns were
432 Epi | cantos. The unity of the composition is lost by these additions,
433 Epi | the work. The two together comprise the whole of the Epic literature
434 Epi | Supplemental Book; and that it comprises 500 cantos and 24,000 couplets.
435 2, 2 | Speak your thoughts without compulsion, though this plan to me
436 2, 1 | wisdom patient purpose to conceal,~Deep determined was his
437 3, 1 | brighter joys of heaven,~Heaven conceals not brighter mansions in
438 12 | We find how that simple conception is concealed in the Ramayana,
439 10, 8 | battle spread.~Drum and conch and sounding trumpet waked
440 2, 3 | throng,~And the people met in conclaves, spake of Rama, Regent Heir,~
441 End | CONCLUSION~In the concluding portion of the Uttara or
442 End | CONCLUSION~In the concluding portion
443 1, 3 | and broke in twain,~In the concourse of the monarchs, in the
444 9 | youngest brother of Ravail, and condemned the folly and the crime
445 Epi | of its glorious past.~In condensing the Ramayana with its more
446 12 | made reflections on the conduct of their king, who had taken
447 2, 5 | Through the chamber of confection, where each viand wooed
448 8, 3 | the angry billows which confess no monarch's sway,~O'er
449 10, 8 | boding voices and the earth confessed a spell,~Gouts of blood
450 Epi | old nurse creeps into her confidence like a creeping serpent,
451 2, 6 | and cruel, break a wife's confiding heart,~How can father, false
452 7, 3 | Like the sun and moon in conflict or like eagles in their
453 3 | Allahabad now stands, on the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumna;
454 4, 5 | Till. once more with hands conjoinéd Bharat to his elder spoke:~"
455 Epi | the poet of the Ramayana conjures up the memories of a golden
456 Epi | of selected passages and connecting them together by short notes.
457 9, 6 | in forces Rama comes with conqu'ring might,~Vain against
458 10, 4 | peerless in thy giant might,~Conqueror of great Immortals, Lakshman
459 7 | which has marked civilized conquerors in all ages, the poet describes
460 5, 1 | need them oft,~Meet and conquers till thy foemen like the
461 7, 4 | monarch and their lord,~Holy consecrating water chiefs and loyal courtiers
462 Epi | effect of the narrative is considerably weakened by such endless
463 Epi | comparison of what may be considered parallel passages in two
464 3, 8 | unavailing tear,~Speak a wife's consoling accents to a dying husband'
465 4, 4 | AGNI, unto VAYU, shall my constant prayers run,~I shall live
466 12, 3 | heavenly might,~Watchers of the constellations, min'sters of the festive
467 3, 7 | cane,~And a mighty raft constructed, and with creepers scented
468 Epi | memories of a golden age, constructs lofty ideals of piety and
469 2, 2 | and wide,~And they met in consultation, joyously with one accord,~
470 2, 2 | II - THE PEOPLE CONSULTED~With the voice of pealing
471 2, 3 | passed the sacred night,~Contemplating World's Preserver, Lord
472 7 | subject of the Book. With that contempt for aboriginal races which
473 1, 4 | pleasant and in sacred sweet content.~Rigliteous Rama, gallant
474 11 | s-eye view of the whole continent of India, as well as to
475 2 | with which the Book begins, contrast with much dramatic force
476 7, 1 | won,~By a woman's false contrivance banished he his eldest son!~
477 2, 1 | I - THE COUNCIL CONVENED~Thus the young and brave
478 2, 6 | incantations high!~Sobs convulsive shook his bosom and his
479 7, 3 | Bali's eyes were red as copper and his chain was burnished
480 11, 3 | Hiding pearls in eaves of corals, strewing shells upon the
481 1, 2 | had tried in vain~Drew the cord with force resistless till
482 5, 3 | Interlacing twigs and branches, corded from the ridge to eaves,~
483 10, 12| and scented wood,~Oil and cords and sacred offerings were
484 2, 5 | tree to tree,~Through the corridor of creepers, painted rooms
485 7, 4 | honey, curd and holy oil,~Costly sandals gilt and jewelled,
486 4, 1 | kingdom for a hermit's humble cot,~Honour unto righteous Rama,
487 3, 5 | forests spanned the spacious country-side,~"Leave the broad and open
488 10, 8 | of summer Ravan's wingéd courses flew,~But Bibhishan in his
489 11, 4 | Noble chief and stately courtier with the wreath and water
490 6, 2 | valour, matchless is his courtly grace,~And he leads no wife
491 3, 6 | In the asram's peaceful courtyard fearless browsed the jungle
492 1 | brothers with the sister and cousins of Sita, forms the subject
493 2, 6 | relief,~Spread thy sable covering mantle o'er an impious monarch'
494 2, 6 | Throne which Bharat doth not covet,-blackened byhis mother'
495 9, 9 | shall impart the milk of cow,~Long as woman shall be
496 9, 2 | secret, stealing like a craven spy,~Not from one in open
497 9, 9 | not shed,--~Other Raksha craven-hearted by my royal hands had bled!"~
498 End | always appears on earth to create mischief. And true to the
499 Epi | willingly let die those great creations of the past which shadow
500 Epi | had been true in life. The creative imagination of the Hindus