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501 10, 9 | death and faintness on me creep,~Weary of this fatal contest
502 Epi | into her confidence like a creeping serpent, and envenoms her
503 Epi | pleasure, but her old nurse creeps into her confidence like
504 5, 1 | asrama and the wild deer crept its blade,~And the sweet-voiced
505 Epi | blood, with the virtues and crimes of great actors in the historic
506 5, 4 | solar chariot, cold and crisp the frosty air,~And the
507 11, 5 | blighting gale,~Rich in crop and rich in pasture was
508 12, 1 | Garments to the grateful people crowding by their monarch's door,~
509 3, 6 | to see us, much I fear,~Crowds of rustics oft will trespass
510 8, 3 | vengeance deep and dreadful crushes Ravan in his might,~Forest
511 4, 1 | gnarléd branches, blossoms culled from bush and tree.~Coats
512 2, 3 | mansion of the noble by the cunning artist made,~On the gay
513 2, 7 | shall not quail,~Poisoned cup or death untimely,--what
514 1, 6 | censers fresh and fragrant, cups with sacred honey filled,~
515 7, 4 | Jatarupa and Priyangu, honey, curd and holy oil,~Costly sandals
516 2, 5 | loving tendance poor Kaikeyi cured thy wound,~Till from death
517 11, 2 | Videha's sinless dame,~Not a curl upon her tresses, not a
518 4, 4 | judge our secret motives curse me with their deepest wrath,~
519 2, 1 | and peer was seated on his cushion rich and high,~And on monarch
520 7 | poet even imports Aryan customs into his account of the
521 4 | Sections xcix., c., ci., civ., cviii.. cix., exii., and cxix.
522 10 | ci., cii., ciii., cix., cx., and cxiii. of Book vi.
523 10 | ciii., cix., cx., and cxiii. of Book vi. of the original
524 4 | cviii.. cix., exii., and cxix. of Book ii. of the original
525 11 | or portions of Sections cxviii., cxx., cxxv., cxxix., and
526 11 | portions of Sections cxviii., cxx., cxxv., cxxix., and cxxx.
527 11 | Sections cxviii., cxx., cxxv., cxxix., and cxxx. of Book vi.
528 11 | Sections cxviii., cxx., cxxv., cxxix., and cxxx. of Book
529 11 | cxx., cxxv., cxxix., and cxxx. of Book vi. of the original
530 6, 3 | Lakshman," thus the raptur'd Sita spake,~"Mark the deer
531 9, 8 | Mighty Gods and dauntless Daityas fame of Indrajit may know,~
532 6, 5 | sparkled in the wavelets' dance!~Mute and still were forest
533 5, 1 | Lotus and the virgin lily danced upon the rippling rill,~
534 5, 1 | stood~In the wilderness of Dandaki--trackless, pathless, boundless
535 Epi | faith and righteous life as Dante's "Divine Comedy" gives
536 8, 3 | never sought to do before,~Dared the Raksha in his island,
537 2, 4 | And when clouds of sorrow darken, ill beseems thee to be
538 12, 1 | ordained,~And a steed of darkest sable with the valiant Lakshman
539 2, 6 | pathless wild?~Wherefore, darkly-scheming woman, on unrighteous purpose
540 Epi | followed the example; Tulasi Das's Ramayana is the great
541 3 | BOOK III - DASA-RATHA-VIYOGA~(The Death of the King)~
542 7, 6 | Search the towns of famed Dasarna and Avanti's rocky shore,~
543 6, 3 | marked the stately wild bull dash into the deepest wood,~And
544 10, 8 | the gallant charges slew,~Dashina from his useless chariot
545 10, 4 | tree in splinters broke.~Dashing through the scattered forces
546 6, 3 | devices slain,~Bright as day-god or Gandharva, woodland scenes
547 2, 6 | as on a tigress looks the dazed and stricken deer,~Lying
548 4, 4 | Truth survives for evermore!~Deadlier than the serpent's venom
549 7, 2 | safety, brother's hate is deadliest sin!~Trust me, monarch of
550 9, 10| danger and destruction, deaf to word of counsel given,~
551 7, 2 | ocean's or like tempest's deafening roar~Spake Sugriva's mighty
552 3, 8 | the unseen fancied tusker dealt a sure and deadly wound,~
553 8, 2 | dear-loved consort, Rama's dear-remembered face!"~Hushed the voice:
554 3 | remembering and recounting on his death-bed how in his youth he had
555 2, 5 | guiltless, free whom direst sins debase,~Wilt thou lift the poor
556 9, 1 | mark the hapless king's debate,~And his friends are disunited
557 10, 2 | trace,~Shade of death's decaying fingers sweeps not o'er
558 1, 1 | Cheat and braggart and deceiver lived not in the ancient
559 11, 5 | Robbers, cheats, and gay deceivers tempted not with lying word,~
560 5, 4 | appear!~Star of Pushya rules December and the night with rime
561 9, 9 | IX - RAVAN's DECISION~Anger swelled in Ravan's
562 4, 6 | thou leavest, fair,~Let me deck thy brow and bosom with
563 2, 7 | nor woman's pity moved the deep-determined queen,~As in cold and cruel
564 Epi | fiery determination and the deep-seated hatred for the foe which
565 3, 8 | heart was shadowed by the deepening shade of night,~As the darkness
566 3, 7 | laid,~And the axes and the deerskins, bow and dart and shining
567 Epi | and each sect gives to the Deity the special name by which
568 8, 4 | Sugriva, Rama shall not brook delay,~While in distant Lanka'
569 2, 5 | loving heart might seek,~Long delayed their wished fulfilment,-
570 Epi | higher level; as a poem delineating the softer emotions of our
571 Epi | sanctifies the work; and delineations of the domestic life and
572 7, 4 | these months of wind and deluge thoughts of vengeful strife
573 2, 5 | V - THE QUEEN'S DEMAND~Rama shall be crowned at
574 6, 2 | Rohini's softer ray,~And like Demon of Destruction furious Surpa -
575 4 | Jabali the Sceptic, who denied heaven and a world here-after.
576 Epi | dark intrigue of a scheming dependant, the awakening jealousy
577 6, 5 | on his feet he wore.~And depending from his shoulders on a
578 Epi | is truth and power in the depicting of such scenes, and not
579 3, 8 | plumage, void of strength, deprived of flight,~Were the stricken
580 7, 5 | mountain bathed in soft descending rain,~So they sprinkle holy
581 10, 5 | O Lord of Rakshas! ere descends yon radiant sun,~Rama's
582 Epi | only such portions of it as describe the leading incidents. We
583 9, 8 | father's kingdom in the desert woods to roam?~Lord of sky
584 2, 5 | of her art,~With a soft desire the monarch vainly searched
585 12 | his wife to him, and he desired that Sita might once more
586 Epi | Sita's adventures in a desolate forest and in a hostile
587 Epi | and the feebleness and despair and death of a fond old
588 Epi | queen till she becomes a desperate woman, resolved to maintain
589 1, 1 | the ancient town,~Proud despiser of the lowly wore not insults
590 9, 6 | vengeance swift and dire,~He despoils our peopled Lanka with his
591 6, 5 | the sylvan forest! other destiny is thine,~As a bride beloved
592 3, 8 | madness and in folly we destroy the mango grove,~Plant the
593 10, 6 | from the foeman after he destroys his race!"~"Untaught child
594 7, 6 | and Sudarsan's holy peak,~Deva-sakha's wooded ranges which the
595 7, 6 | will!~Search the woods of devadaru mantling Himalaya's side,~
596 10, 5 | slain,~Trisiras and fierce Devantak, Hanuman slew on the plain,~
597 Epi | of the nation, and on the development of their modern languages,
598 3 | sect of the Hindu faith who devote themselves to this incarnation
599 3 | a footpath on which the devotee, with naked feet, treads
600 5, 4 | er its sandbank soaked in dew,~And the drooping water-lily
601 5, 4 | and plain,~And the corn in dewdrop sparkling makes a sea of
602 5, 4 | wheat and barley are with dewdrops moist and wet,~And the golden
603 Epi | between Bhima and Duryo dhan. The whole tenor of the
604 5, 1 | to conquer and to bless,~DHARMA god of human duty and of
605 10, 3 | resistless fate!~Dark-eyed chief Dhumraksha sallied with the fierce
606 10, 7 | when the monarch Ravan dics,~Indrajit shall watch his
607 6, 1 | makes bold afemale, thus didshe her thoughts impart:~"Who
608 Epi | respects the two Indian Epics differ from each other. The Maha-Bharata
609 10 | and Kumbha-karna; it is difficult to say who was the best
610 Epi | are told something of the dimensions of the poem, apparently
611 8 | by Sugriva in different directions in search of Sita, Hanuman
612 1 | warrior came and went away disappointed. Rama succeeded, and won
613 2, 6 | pathless jungle go,~Shall I see disasters sweeping o'er my empire
614 Epi | Kurus not to plunge into a disastrous war, and the deep determination
615 7, 3 | fatal dart,~Like the fatal disc of YAMA was his proudly
616 10, 5 | and misty shroud,~Indrajit discharged his arrows bright as sunbeams
617 11, 1 | betraved no weakness, word disclosed no thought concealed,~Silent
618 5 | years ago. He was pioneer, discoverer and settler,-the Indian
619 Epi | And their researches and discoveries in science and philosophy
620 10, 8 | and bhindipala, quoit and discus quick to strike.~And they
621 10, 12| deed,~Girdling round the Discus-Wielder in the battle's direst need!~
622 10, 3 | Ravan flung,~Vain the toil, disdainful Ravan dashed aside the flying
623 11, 5 | reign,~Death untimely, dire diseases came not to his subject
624 6, 2 | far-resounding wail,~Saw her red disfigured visage, heard her sad and
625 2, 5 | lowly or the proud and great disgrace,~Speak, and I and all my
626 1, 6 | Parchéd rice arranged in dishes, corn unhusked that filled
627 3, 1 | duty own,~Dearest song they disinherit, cherish strangers near
628 5, 4 | And the wood of flower dismantled doth in russet robes appear!~
629 3, 1 | wife forsake?~Lightly I dismiss the counsel which my lord
630 4, 2 | mandate duteous son may not disown,~And I may not, gentle brother,
631 12, 5 | to my people's wishes I disowned my sinless dame,~Pardon,
632 5, 4 | agrayana pious men their sins dispel,~And with gay and sweet
633 11, 1 | averted eyes,~FuneraI flame dispels suspicion, honour lives
634 5 | hermitages so far; he sings of dissensions and wars hereafter.~The
635 Epi | perpetuates their fame. Distance of time lent a higher lustre
636 Epi | but the main story is more distinctly the creation of one mind.
637 Epi | their prowess, Their priests distinguished themselves by founding schools
638 End | Lakshman himself had to disturb the conference by the solicitation
639 9, 1 | debate,~And his friends are disunited when his foe is at the gate!~
640 3, 5 | said,~"Follow yet a track diverging, so the people be misled.~
641 2, 1 | thought,~For strange signs and diverse tokens now appeared on earth
642 11, 4 | lighted,--car of flowers divinely fair,--~Bharat mounting
643 6, 7 | with piteous wail,~Dim and dizzy, faint and faltering, still
644 3, 6 | to fair Ayodhya's town,~Doffing then their royal garments
645 2, 6 | Weak and foolish in his dotapre, Dasa-ratha holds his sway,~
646 4, 4 | the father and the mother dotes the son,~Kinship is an idle
647 9, 6 | against him is thy might,~Doubly arméd is the hero,--he who
648 2, 2 | and whispers kind,~For a doubt within me lingers and a
649 11, 2 | maiden clays of youth,~Have I doubted Sita's virtue, Sita's fixed
650 5, 4 | duck and the tuneful hansa doubtful watch the river's brink,~
651 11, 1 | my Rama, if your bosom doubts my faith,~Dearer than a
652 5, 4 | with each rite and duty doue,~And they sang the ancient
653 8, 1 | neck and bosom fair,~And a dower of dazzling beauty still
654 5 | might the Southern ocean was drained. It is likely that some
655 10, 1 | Serpent noose upon his foemen draining lifeblood from their heart!~
656 2 | begins, contrast with much dramatic force and effect with the
657 8, 1 | bark of trees of forest drape her neck and bosom fair,~
658 3, 4 | for Rama good and kind:~"Draw the reins, benign Sumantra,
659 8, 3 | gentle Lady, Rama's vengeance draweth nigh,~Thou shalt see his
660 1, 2 | rested all-inviolate Janak's dreaded bow of war,~And where midst
661 2, 1 | princes of their father dreamt and thought by night and
662 9, 4 | them wearing human visage. dressed as Bharat's troops appear,~
663 8, 1 | sorrowing in her sylvan garments drest,~Like the moon obscured
664 11, 3 | lost his life,~She hath dried her tears of sorrow and
665 3, 8 | aim could tell,--~Blindly drinks a child the poison, blindly
666 4, 6 | smooth and fair,~In their dripping barks the hermits to their
667 11, 1 | heart in anguish, silent drooped his tortured head,~Lakshman
668 10, 9 | leave his nerveless hand,~Drop his bow and shining arrows,
669 12, 3 | how like our king~As two drops of limpid water from the
670 9 | with Rama. His voice was drowned in the cries of more violent
671 8, 4 | my wife,~Like some potent drug her accents renovate my
672 5, 4 | the freezing drink,~Wild duck and the tuneful hansa doubtful
673 5, 1 | Agastya, "who to guests their dues deny,~Hunger they in life
674 12, 3 | Blended with the simple music dulcet was the lay to hear,~And
675 1, 5 | proud Kaikeya, dear and duly-greeted guest,~Dasa-ratha on his
676 3, 4 | the city's might,~Mute and dumb but conscious creatures
677 5, 1 | Lakshman led,~Where the dun deer free and fearless roamed
678 11, 4 | the beat of drum of war,~Dundubhi and echoing sankha, voice
679 6, 6 | wife of Rama to thy distant dungeon hold,~Ere thou seek to insult
680 End | solicitation of the celestial rishi Durvasa, who always appears on earth
681 Epi | contest between Bhima and Duryo dhan. The whole tenor of
682 Epi | Arjun and Kama, Bhima and Duryodban. Sita's protest and defiance,
683 Epi | times. Rama, the true and dutiful, was accepted as the Spirit
684 Epi | three thousand years.~ROMESH DUTT.~UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,~
685 6, 4 | leave thee, Lady, for this duty--to obey.~Ruthless Rakshas
686 6, 5 | thy eyes of limpid lustre dwclls a light of love divine,~
687 6, 1 | it so befell, a maiden, dweller of the darksome wood,~Led
688 11, 1 | For she dwelt in Ravan's dwelling--rumour clouds a woman's
689 3, 7 | we should render when our dwelling-home we make,~Slay the black
690 3, 6 | leafy cottage for their dwelling-place assigned,~As a host receives
691 3, 6 | foliage hermits' peaceful dwellings rose,~And they came to Bharad-vaja,
692 7, 4 | and the Chandan's fragrant dye,~Wreaths and spices, snow-white
693 6, 7 | wooded vale,~Like a snake in eagle's talons Sita writhed with
694 7, 3 | moon in conflict or like eagles in their fight,~Still they
695 8, 1 | of sorrow darkens all her earlier grace!~This is she! the
696 Epi | is not a Hindu man whose earliest and tenderest recollections
697 1, 1 | And they wore the gem and earring, wreath and fragrant sandal
698 10, 8 | billows, nations felt the earthquake shock!~Darkly closed the
699 6, 6 | pikes of iron tread a softer easier path!"~
700 Epi | Ramayana is composed is the easiest of Sanscrit, metres, and
701 7, 4 | garlands graced,~Facing eastward, in his glory was the brave
702 3, 7 | chanted songs of hermits echo through its sacred grove,~
703 3, 7 | way,~Where the dark and eddying, waters of the sacred Jumna
704 Epi | that of these meritorious editions and translations. The purpose
705 Epi | queen tells with terrible effeect on the weakness and vacillation
706 1, 2 | toil and effort did the eight-wheeled chariot bring.~"This the
707 12, 3 | I know who these may be,~Eighteen thousand golden pieces be
708 Epi | various parts of India. Their elaborate Brahmanas or Commentaries
709 Epi | compare with the sublime eloquence with which Krishna implored
710 | else
711 10, 7 | valour lends a radiance to elysium's sunny clime,~And thy bright
712 1, 3 | III - THE EMBASSY TO AYODHYA~Three nights
713 4 | them on the throne, as an emblem of Rama's sovereignty during
714 6, 1 | stray,~But by Rama's love emboldened I have left them on the
715 1, 6 | princes held the maidens, hand embraced in loving hand,~And Vasishtha
716 8, 1 | duty brave,~Lighted on the emerald island girded by the sapphire
717 4, 4 | no duty, and this will is empty word,~View him as a foreign
718 4, 6 | Mark! how by the stars encircled sails the radiant Lord of
719 7, 3 | borne!~Bali turns not from encounter even with his dying breath,~
720 Epi | of the Hindus unless we endeavour to study fully and clearly
721 5, 1 | heart hath thirsted, youth endued with righteous grace,~Hath
722 6, 4 | thou the death of elder to enforce his widow's hand?~False
723 4, 6 | agni-hotra holy anchorites engage,~And a wreath of smoke ascending
724 4, 2 | sleepless caution with the engines of the war,~With the men
725 10, 8 | this bosom is a cruel grief engraved!"~Father's grief and sad
726 11 | poem. And the happiness enjoyed by men during the reign
727 Epi | fabric of the Epic, and ennoble and sanctify the work in
728 Epi | admiration of what is true and ennobling in the human character sanctifies
729 4, 4 | his kith or kindred own,~Entering on his Nvide earth friendless,
730 11, 5 | first of monarchs, was enthroned in days of yore,~So was
731 8, 1 | affection did in early days entwine!~Hermit's garments clothe
732 Epi | a creeping serpent, and envenoms her heart with the poison
733 Epi | the heroes of the ancient Epics-Krishna and Rama-to be the incarnations
734 Epi | EPILOGUE BY THE TRANSLATOR~Ancient
735 Epi | the incorporation of new episodes, tales, and traditions,--
736 7 | sees through these strange epithets; and in the description
737 10, 4 | INDRA nor the great VARUNA equalled Kumbha-karna's might,~Vanars
738 4 | seat himself on the throne. Equally touching is the lament of
739 7, 5 | could part,~As the stream erodes its margin, Sita's absence
740 5, 4 | tender petals lost!~Now my errant fancy wanders to Ayodhya'
741 2, 7 | it with thy life,~Wounded erst by foes immortal, saved
742 3 | to steal away at night to escape the citizens, and his wanderings
743 2, 7 | Hath some angry accent escaped thee thus his royal heart
744 10 | certain method in the poet's estimate of the warriors who took
745 11, 4 | Sailing o'er the cloudless ether Rama's Pushpa chariot came,~
746 4, 5 | prostrate Bharat to his ever-loving breast,~And in voice of
747 2, 7 | heart to wring,~Speak, my ever-lovinging mother, speak the truth,
748 2, 6 | please thee, monarch, of thy evil-destined wife,~How she loved with
749 Epi | prison only represent in an exaggerated form the humbler trials
750 2, 2 | fills the wide earth and exalts his ancient race!~Bright
751 Epi | and Bombay followed the example; Tulasi Das's Ramayana is
752 2, 1 | wrath,~In the field of war excelling, boldest warrior midst the
753 | except
754 6 | Lakshman sprang out of an excess of her affection for her
755 6 | SITA-HARANA~(Sita Lost)~WE exchange the quiet life of Rama in
756 4 | ci., civ., cviii.. cix., exii., and cxix. of Book ii.
757 3, 6 | us rove."~Slowly came the exile-wand'rers, when the sun withdrew
758 Epi | and lifelike picture that exists of the civilisation and
759 9 | of War, and as might be expected, all the advisers heedlessly
760 Epi | translation by Gorresio, at the expense of Charles Albert King of
761 3, 8 | righteous son!~Distant is the expiation,---but in fulness of the
762 4, 6 | thus her gentle thoughts exprest:~"Sweet the tale you tell
763 3, 7 | Where the unknown realm extended mantled by unending wood,~
764 4 | orthodox and some of them extremely heterodox, and the greatest
765 8, 4 | affection from the warrior's eyelids start,~As his consort's
766 10, 6 | Red with gore and dim in eyesight still the chiefs in fury
767 Epi | of gold through the whole fabric of the Epic, and ennoble
768 10, 12| bright Immortals feared to facein dubious fight?~Not a man!-
769 Epi | metres, and afforded a fatal facility to poets and often we have
770 6, 5 | the bright Moon's glories fade.~Quaking Nature knew the
771 5, 1 | Fruit and blossom, skin and faggot, sanctified the holy ground.~
772 4, 1 | Lakshman's faithful might.~Faggots hewn of gnarléd branches,
773 5, 1 | our father's mandate true,~Fain to mighty Saint Agastya
774 6, 5 | this dismal forest doth thy fairy face adorn,~Who art thou
775 11, 3 | hand,~On Bibhisban good and faitbful, crowned king of Lanka's
776 10, 10| bow and quiver, wear this falchion dread and dire,~VISWA-KARMAN
777 9, 6 | swoops upon thy empire like a falcon on its prey,~Render to the
778 11, 1 | rumour clouds a woman's fame--~Righteous Rama's brow was
779 Epi | to generation by priestly families. Their researches into the
780 Epi | the nursery, taught in the family circle, remembered and cherished
781 1, 1 | gold,~Galling penury and famine in Ayodhya had no hold,~
782 3, 7 | and the chaitya's sacred fane.~Evening spread its holy
783 10, 12| the zephyrs gently blowing fanned the bright and blazing fire,~
784 Epi | ancient ideal may seem to us far-fetched in these days, but we can
785 6, 2 | doughty Dushan heard the far-resounding wail,~Saw her red disfigured
786 10, 4 | yonder, not afar!"~Ill it fared with Kumbha-karna when he
787 6, 7 | obeisance as she speaks her sad farewell,~Whisper to my righteous
788 Epi | abnegation which charmed and fascinated the Hindu world. Repeated
789 10, 1 | dealing unresisted blow,~Fastened by a noose of Naga forced
790 3, 4 | the swiftly-flying steed,~Faster than the speed of tempest
791 7, 5 | In some unknown forest fastness doth my sorrowing Sita bide,~
792 7, 1 | friendship made!~Equal is our fateful fortune,--I have lost a
793 5, 3 | art prompt to judge and fathom, Lakshman listens to obey!~"
794 1, 3 | journey with their steeds fatigued and spent,~Envoys from Mithila'
795 Epi | long before M. Hippolyte Fauche presented the European world
796 9, 9 | with curious vision every fault that clouds my path,~How
797 3, 1 | with deep devotion and with faultless faith obey,~Truth and virtue
798 6, 2 | bears no rival in her path!"~Fawn-eyed Sita fell in terror as the
799 10, 12| man, whom bright Immortals feared to facein dubious fight?~
800 10, 5 | patiently the princes suffered, fearlessly the heroes fell!~
801 10, 4 | As a forest conflagration feasts upon the parchéd wood,~Far
802 1, 2 | to Rama's father glorious feat by Rama done,~They shall
803 7, 1 | lightning are these arrows feather-plumed,~Deadly as the hissing serpent
804 7, 6 | fruitful trees,~Where the feathery groves of cocoa court the
805 12 | twenty-five days. It was by such feats of memory and by such recitals
806 10, 2 | Cold nor rigid are their features, darkness dwells not on
807 12, 3 | the children -minstrels' fee!"~"Not so," answered thus
808 9, 8 | for deeds of glory done,~Feeble-hearted, faint in courage, save
809 Epi | imperious queen, and the feebleness and despair and death of
810 10, 3 | felled him as the woodman fells the pine!~Bravest chiefs
811 10, 6 | Lakshman's useless armour fen,~Red with gore and dim in
812 4 | But Rama answers with the fervour of a righteous, truth-loving,
813 Epi | on the stage at religious festivals in every great town and
814 11, 4 | Ayodhya'a banners brave,~Gay festoons of flowering creeper home
815 7, 5 | And the earth is hot and feverish, moistened with the tears
816 11, 1 | your pride,~Risked your fife in endless combats for a
817 7, 5 | streaks of golden lustre fighting up the checkered sky,~Like
818 2, 1 | witnessed Rama's virtues filling all the world with love,~
819 6 | from the cottage, and then finds his chance for stealing
820 4, 1 | horns and branching antlers, fire-wood for the dewy night,--~Spake
821 6 | insult and punishment she fires her brother Ravan, the king
822 11, 1 | visage and his lips were firmly sealed,~And his eye betraved
823 7, 3 | accents bold:~"Mark this iron fist, intruder, fatal is its
824 6, 6 | my wedded lord!~Sure thy fitful life is shadowed by a dark
825 7, 3 | startled deer,~And as INDRA'S flag is lowered when the Aswin
826 10, 3 | mounted on his thundering car,~Flame-resplendent was the chariot drawn by
827 4, 1 | like light of day,~And like flame-tongued fiery serpents cast a dread
828 2, 6 | passion woke.~And his eyeballs flamed with redfire, to the queen
829 6, 3 | beauty, silver-white his flank and side!~"Come, my lord
830 12, 4 | LAVA AND KUSARA RECOGNISED~Flashed upon the contrite Rama glimpses
831 10, 11| Wrapped in smoke and flaming flashes, speeding from the circled
832 6, 5 | texts the lie,~Ravan in his flattering accents, with a soft and
833 1, 4 | each car of state,~With the fleetest of my coursers, and upon
834 5, 2 | as light the lightnings fling,~Keen as sabre, quick as
835 3, 7 | Then the rustic bark was floated, framed with skill of woodman'
836 3, 7 | tuneful swans and saras flocked on Jumna's sandy shore.~
837 12, 3 | song!~And as poured the flood of music through the bright
838 10, 1 | from the countless slain,~Flooded battle's dark arena like
839 10, 1 | battle's dark arena like the floods of summer rain,~Sound of
840 Epi | It would appear that the flourishing period of the Kosalas and
841 3, 3 | sorrow and of suffering flowed from Queen Kausalya's eye,~
842 8, 1 | beauteous bush and trep.~Flower-bespangled golden Lanka was like gem-bespangled
843 1, 6 | greensward tripped along!~As the flowery rain descended and the music
844 6, 6 | flaming conflagration in thy flowing dress enfold,~Ere thou take
845 3, 7 | Chitra-kuta where the Malyavati flows,~Sixth day of their weary
846 2, 3 | glittering streamers, flags that fluttered in the breeze!~Actors gay
847 5, 3 | black buck fleet and strong!~Foe-compelling faithful Lakshman heard
848 10, 6 | kindred, basely seeks the foemans grace,~Meets destruction
849 7, 5 | waters filled!~Mark the folds of cloudy masses, ladder-like
850 3, 6 | Till behind the screening foliage hermits' peaceful dwellings
851 Epi | fourteenth century; and his follower the gifted Kabir conceived
852 9, 9 | care,--~But their false and fondling females lead them to the
853 Epi | father and his father's fondness for Rama; and the portion
854 4, 4 | and departing all alone,~Foolishly upon the father and the
855 3 | round the hill is raised a footpath on which the devotee, with
856 3, 4 | father with a faltering footstep go,~Used to royal pomp and
857 6, 3 | Rakshas skilled,~For with forceful fascination Sita's inmost
858 10, 6 | the earth and ocean drew,~Forcing through the gates of Lanka
859 6, 5 | lovely caverns, tuskers ford the silent lake,~Monkeys
860 2, 7 | monarch would his ancient word forego,~He would build a needless
861 Epi | before the Christian Era.~The foregoing account of the genesis and
862 4, 4 | empty word,~View him as a foreign monarch, of thy realm thou
863 11, 3 | sweeping in her regal pride,~Forest-dweller faithful Guha crossed us
864 3, 7 | was duly rendered for the forest-dwelling made,~And with true and
865 3, 4 | forest creatures when the forest-king is slain,~And the faint
866 5, 3 | palm-tree guard this darksome forest-land,~Golden date and flowering
867 2, 5 | dart,~Whom her mate the forest-monarch soothes with soft endearing
868 2, 5 | heavenly birth,~Like a female forest-ranger bleeding from the hunter'
869 4, 1 | throne,~Now the friend of forest-rangers wandering in the woods alone,~
870 6, 6 | piety and fame,~Till the forest-ranging brothers greet thee with
871 3, 3 | ignore the plighted word,~And forget a woman's duty, woman's
872 3, 8 | true and faithful son,~Ah! forgive a dying father and a cruel
873 3, 3 | unremembered, blessings and forgiveness prayed,~And his words were
874 11, 2 | soft embrace,~And the fond forgiving Sita in his bosom hid her
875 10, 6 | of Fate!"~"Hast thou too forgot the lesson," Indrajit to
876 7, 1 | thine!~Quick as INDRA'S forkéd lightning are these arrows
877 6, 1 | Rama won her heart,~And, forlove makes bold afemale, thus
878 Epi | inspiring our modem poets and forming our modern tongues. Southern
879 Epi | honour of various images and forms-and that popular monotheism
880 3, 1 | husband will the wedded wife forsake?~Lightly I dismiss the counsel
881 4, 2 | labour and to heal!~Guard thy forts with sleepless caution with
882 7, 1 | Mutual sorrow blends your fortunes, be ye friends in mutual
883 End | brothers are described as the founders of the great cities and
884 Epi | distinguished themselves by founding schools of learning which
885 5, 1 | Portion of the royal INDRA, fount of justice and of might,~
886 3, 6 | Crystal water from the fountain, berries from the darksome
887 7, 2 | life,~Wage not then a war fraternal, smite him not in sinful
888 1, 1 | refuse, none who lived by fraud and stealth!~And they wore
889 8, 2 | monarch of the Rakshas,-fraudful is his impious life,~Cheated
890 11, 5 | lore,~Poured the fresh and fraurant water on the consecrated
891 4 | Jabali, the poet depicts a free-thinker of the broadest type. He
892 8, 3 | Moon regains her lustre freed from Rahu's shadows dark!~
893 Epi | the European world with a French translation of this edition.
894 Epi | Universities (Parishads) were frequented by students from surrounding
895 6, 2 | beauty let him seek thy fresher charms,~Spurning Sita's
896 6, 1 | thy native beauty bright,~Friended by a youthful woman, arméd
897 1, 4 | waggons lead the way,~Ride in front with royal riches, gold
898 5, 4 | bends her head beneath the frost,~Lost her fresh and fragrant
899 6, 5 | Nymph of Love or sweet Fruition, what may be thy sacred
900 2, 1 | world with love,~As the full-moon's radiant lustre fills the
901 2, 2 | constellation shines the moon with fuller light~Throned to rule his
902 1, 1 | given,~'Stooped no man to fulsome falsehood, questioned none
903 11, 1 | turns his cold averted eyes,~FuneraI flame dispels suspicion,
904 | further
905 1, 2 | and stout Asuras have in futile effort failed,~Mortal man
906 4, 6 | listened of the grace by Sita gained,~Favours of the ancient
907 11, 5 | never came the blighting gale,~Rich in crop and rich in
908 1, 1 | cattle, corn, and gold,~Galling penury and famine in Ayodhya
909 6, 6 | greet thee with the forest game,~Speak, if so it please
910 1, 6 | and fragrant air,~Bright Gandkarvas skilled in music waked the
911 9, 7 | monarch's might,~As through gaps of Krauncha mountains hansas
912 4, 1 | of yellow gold,~Glove and gauntlet decked the cottage safe
913 6, 5 | Art thou Sri or radiant Gauri, maid of Fortune or of Fame,~
914 11, 5 | gemmed and jewelled seat,~Gautama. and Katyayana, Vamadeva
915 6, 6 | dreary day,~And five thousand gay-dressed damsels shall upon my Sita,
916 5, 1 | sinners dread,~Holy Spirit of GAYATRI goddess of the morning prayer,~
917 11, 5 | Bibhishan waved the chowri gem-inlaid,~VAYU, God of gentle zephyrs,
918 Epi | that popular monotheism generally recognises the heroes of
919 2, 4 | stand,~Young in years and generous-hearted, they will grow in mutual
920 Epi | foregoing account of the genesis and growth of the Ramayana
921 10, 8 | blood-beaked vultures feed upon the ghastly plain,~For his great and
922 7, 4 | grain and herb and fragrant ghee,~Sapling twigs and bending
923 7, 4 | holy oil,~Costly sandals gilt and jewelled, tiger-skin
924 9, 1 | main,~Ere the wrathful Rama girdles Lanka with a living chain!"~
925 12 | describing the fate of Sita, and giving the poem a sad ending.~The
926 4, 6 | meet,~And the young wife glad and grateful bowed to Anasuya'
927 8, 4 | loving vision, wilt thou gladden Rama's eye!~Speak again,
928 11, 4 | glittering garment let the gladdened city shine.~Elephants in
929 2, 3 | crowned to-day,~Rapid flew the gladdening message with the morning'
930 2, 5 | magic of her beauty and the glamour of her art,~With a soft
931 6, 5 | trembled' neath his lurid glance,~And his red eve's fiery
932 8, 1 | in the checkered shadow gleamed,~Clustering fruits of golden
933 5, 3 | the smiling lake of lotus gleaming with a radiance fair,~Wafting
934 6, 3 | hunting in this lonely glen,~Oft waylaid by artful Rakshas
935 7, 5 | gather high,~Lurid lightnings glint and sparkle, pealing thunders
936 5, 4 | and leaf and tree,~Mark it glisten on the green grass, on each
937 7, 1 | my aid,~Not in vain these glistening arrows in my ample quiver
938 5, 4 | rising vapour faint she glistens on the dale,~Like our sun-embrownéd
939 5, 3 | trees with budding blossoms glitter on the mountains high,~And
940 5, 1 | And the golden sunlight glittered on the greenwoods calm and
941 10, 8 | Grimly smiled the angry Ravan gloating in his vengeful wrath,~Spake
942 5, 2 | homeless wife,~But in wilder, gloomier forests lonesome we must
943 3, 8 | darkness of the eclipse glooms the sun's meridian light!~
944 6, 5 | Rohini when the bright Moon's glories fade.~Quaking Nature knew
945 4, 1 | with rings of yellow gold,~Glove and gauntlet decked the
946 6, 3 | coat of starry radiance glowing in the light of day!~Rama
947 4, 1 | faithful might.~Faggots hewn of gnarléd branches, blossoms culled
948 10, 3 | JAVELIN-STROKE~'Gainst the God-assisted Rama, Ravan's efforts all
949 4 | righteous, truth-loving, God-fearing man.~All persuasion was
950 6, 5 | descended, nymph or maid or goddess-born?~
951 Epi | of Sita's character; she goes to a second banishment in
952 3, 8 | pardon free!~But before thou goest, monarch, take, O take thy
953 7, 4 | bounty, gift and garment gold-belaced,~And they lit the holy altar
954 7, 3 | he saw the bold Sugriva, gold-complexioned, red with ire,~Girded for
955 3, 4 | brothers mounted on the gold-emblazoned car,~For unending was the
956 5, 1 | VASUS and the hooded NAGAS, golden-winged GARUDA fair,~KARTIKEYA heavenly
957 Epi | an Italian translation by Gorresio, at the expense of Charles
958 10, 8 | earth confessed a spell,~Gouts of blood in rain descended,
959 3, 1 | and my husband's princely grade;~For the faithful woman
960 Epi | without rivalling the heroic grandeur of the Maha-bharata, the
961 1, 1 | With his sons and with his grandsons, with his loved and honoured
962 Epi | in the human heart more graphically or more vividly, with greater
963 7, 1 | Ayodhya with his greetings gratified:~"Well I know thee, righteous
964 10, 2 | and have found a warrior's grave,~And I weep not for my sorrows,---
965 4 | force of reasoning which a Greek sophist and philosopher
966 1, 6 | Apsaras in their beauty on the greensward tripped along!~As the flowery
967 1, 4 | Royal grace and kingly greeting, marked the ancient monarch'
968 4, 6 | rare,~Old these eyes and grey these tresses, but a thrill
969 3, 8 | parents weep and perish, grieving for a slaughtered son,~Thou
970 Epi | indefatigable Mr. Ralph Griffith, C.I.E., who has devoted
971 10, 8 | Bibhishan by his might!~Grimly smiled the angry Ravan gloating
972 6, 3 | in the branches' shade,~Grizzly bear that feeds on Mahva,
973 9, 8 | shaking sky and earth with groan,~Mighty Gods and dauntless
974 10, 6 | Listen more! this fated Lanka groans beneath her load of crime,~
975 2, 3 | accept her people's love!~Groups of joyous townsmen gathered
976 7, 6 | trees,~Where the feathery groves of cocoa court the balmy
977 6, 7 | need,~As the young corn grows and ripens from the small
978 6, 4 | mandate, to my elder now I go,~Guardian Spirits of the forest watch
979 11, 4 | learned Brahman, chief of guild from near and far,~Noble
980 4, 5 | Bharat dwells in palace guised as hermit of the wood,~In
981 2, 4 | destruction and to sink in gulf of woe?~Know, fair queen,
982 3, 8 | drink,~And I heard a distant gurgle, some wild beast the water
983 2, 5 | with thy foes immortal thou hadst almost lost thy life,~With
984 5, 1 | BRAHMA'S sky in lustre, hallowed by the grace of God!~Rama
985 7, 6 | horse-faced women dwell,~Halt not till you reach the country
986 3 | Tamasa river, where they halted on the first night. Rama
987 4, 4 | none!~In the wayside inn he halteth who in distant lands doth
988 Epi | hoped, find in this book a handy and not unacceptable translation
989 9, 9 | the lotus but unmingling hang apart,~False relations round
990 10, 9 | shining arrows, useless hangs his sheathéd brand!~Art
991 9, 7 | gaps of Krauncha mountains hansas speed their southern flight!~
992 8, 3 | dream's deceitful whisper!" Hantiman spake to the dame,~As from
993 3, 1 | will pass in happy union,--happiest lot to woman given,--~Sita
994 5, 1 | mightiest Saint of olden time,~Harbinger of holy culture in the wilds
995 9, 9 | virtues shine,~How they harbour jealous envy when deserts
996 6 | ideal woman of the Epic harboured an unjust thought or spoke
997 10, 2 | field of war!~Soon they harnessed royal coursers and they
998 10, 10| faced his foeman's might,~Harnessing his gallant coursers to
999 11, 1 | Janak saw my birth,~Child of harvest-bearing furrow, Sita sprang from
1000 2, 6 | darkness, rainless may the harvests thrive,~But from ri~hteous