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1501 10, 6 | kinsman as we shun the pois'nous snake!~Listen, youth! this
1502 3, 1 | Limpid rills and crystal nullas as they softly ripple by,~
1503 10 | the war ended.~Among the numberless fights described in the
1504 1, 4 | s darkness closes, happy nuptials shall be done!"~Thus in
1505 Epi | faithfulness, told in the nursery, taught in the family circle,
1506 8, 3 | cherish Sita loved of yore,~Nursing in his hero-bosom tender
1507 4, 4 | kindred own,~Entering on his Nvide earth friendless, and departing
1508 4, 4 | maxims and with selfish objects say,~Make thy gifts and
1509 4, 1 | uplands, wreaths of smoke obscure the sky,~Hermits feed their
1510 8, 1 | garments drest,~Like the moon obscured and clouded, dim with shadows
1511 3, 6 | and argya where the guests observant stood,~Crystal water from
1512 Epi | waged for her recovery, occupied generations of busy interpolators.~
1513 2 | events narrated in this Book occupy scarcely two days. The description
1514 4, 1 | eye.~Lord of wide earth ocean-girdled, but intent on penance high,~
1515 10, 11| Sweetest scent and fragrant odours wafted from celestial trees,~
1516 10, 6 | Neither quailed bef ore his f oeman, pause nor grace nor mercy
1517 2, 4 | Bharat's future hope,~What offends thee, senseless woman, wherefore
1518 4, 4 | Take the kingdom Bharat offers, rule Ayodhya in thy pride!"~"
1519 10 | the most important, and oftenest recited and listened to
1520 12, 5 | can a loving woman need?~Oh! her woman~s heart is bursting,
1521 5, 1 | Agastya, mightiest Saint of olden time,~Harbinger of holy
1522 Epi | rather Janaka, but I have omitted the final a of some names
1523 3, 7 | the worship of the Bright Ones purified each earthly stain,~
1524 3, 5 | far and wide,~Stretching onwards to the forests spanned the
1525 12 | Ravan. Rama gave way to the opinion of his people, and he sent
1526 6, 6 | peak and high,~Snatch the orbs of day and midnight from
1527 12, 2 | by the door of Rama,--he ordains this mighty feast,~Sing
1528 2, 5 | Every rite arranged and ordered, Dasa-ratha homeward came,~
1529 7, 2 | strife,~For, like precious ores in mountains, virtues dwell
1530 4 | philosophers, some of them orthodox and some of them extremely
1531 11, 4 | a lofty music shake,~And ourpriests to bright Immortals grateful
1532 8, 2 | hope and rising rapture overflowed her widowed heart,~Is it
1533 7, 3 | almost fell,~As a proud ship overladen reels upon the ocean's swell!~
1534 8, 1 | beauteous star Rohini by a graha overtaken!~Fasts and vigils paled
1535 9, 8 | huge Airavat, by my prowess overthrown,~Trumpeted its anguished
1536 Epi | Ramayana is subdued and calm, pacific and pious; the whole tenor
1537 6, 4 | signs of danger meet my pained and aching sight,~May I
1538 2, 7 | his face?~Doth a piercing painful ailment rack his limbs with
1539 12, 3 | who sang the ancient lay,~Painters skilled and merry dancers
1540 5, 4 | hill and field and forest, painting bush and leaf and tree,~
1541 1, 6 | on the blest and wedded pair.~Next he turned to Sita'
1542 12, 1 | each crownéd monarch stood.~Palaces and stately mansions were
1543 8, 1 | overtaken!~Fasts and vigils paled her beauty, tears bedimmed
1544 8, 3 | Deadly YAMA, all-destroying, pales before his peerless might~
1545 8, 1 | of ample height,~Stately palm and feathered cocoa, fruit
1546 11, 3 | See the sacred lake of Pampa by whose wild and echoing
1547 Epi | between the Kurus and the Panchalas; the Ramayana grew out of
1548 7, 6 | Cholas, Cheras and the Pandyas dwelling by the southern
1549 8, 3 | conquering Rama comes with panoply of war,~Shaking Lanka's
1550 Epi | of what may be considered parallel passages in two great Epics
1551 4, 3 | lotus dry,~And like lily parched by sunlight, lustreless
1552 11, 2 | Sita thought of thee alone,~Pare is she in thought and action,
1553 Epi | celebrated Universities (Parishads) were frequented by students
1554 2, 5 | poured forth their music, parrot flew from tree to tree,~
1555 4, 4 | take!~And the food by one partaken, can it nourish other men,~
1556 2, 5 | chamber, found her not in gay parterre!~Filled with love and longing
1557 7, 4 | regal duties trained,~Ruling partner of thy empire be the valiant
1558 2, 4 | Bharat's kingdom, ruling partners they shall prove,~For himself
1559 2, 3 | the lighted fire,~Piously partook the remnant, sought for
1560 6, 2 | words addressed:~"List, O passion-smitten maiden! Sita is my honoured
1561 6, 1 | longing till her soul was passion-stirred!~Looked on Rama lion-chested,
1562 4 | firm refusal to Bharat's passionate appeal to seat himself on
1563 1, 1 | wreath and fragrant sandal paste,~And their arms were decked
1564 11, 5 | Rich in crop and rich in pasture was each soft and smiling
1565 4, 2 | Rich thy green unending pastures with the kine and fattened
1566 10, 8 | waked the echoes of the sky,~Pataha and loud mridanga and the
1567 12, 4 | And with tears of love paternal Rama clasped each minstrel
1568 2, 3 | On the crossing of the pathways, in the garden green and
1569 10, 5 | foeman's dart and spell~patiently the princes suffered, fearlessly
1570 7, 6 | Search the ocean port of Pattan shaded by its fruitful trees,~
1571 7, 6 | swooping from their gorges, Pattanas of iron will!~Search the
1572 2, 3 | made,~On the gay and bright pavilion, on the high and shady trees.~
1573 2, 4 | Kausalya, loftier honour to me pays,~Rama's realm is Bharat'
1574 2, 2 | applauses long and loud,~As the peafowls hail the thunder of the
1575 10, 3 | ire!~Rolled the car with peal of thunder through the city'
1576 6, 5 | coral, sparkling teeth of pearly sheen!~Lighting up the lonely
1577 Epi | appreciated by the prince and the peasant alike, that the Ramayana
1578 3, 6 | unharmed the bird of forest; pecked the grain collected near,~
1579 End | Lakshman died under somewhat peculiar circumstances. A messenger
1580 8, 1 | and huts of rustic beauty peeped through bushes green and
1581 4, 1 | their back with gold was pencilled, bright as INDRA's bow of
1582 6, 5 | silent lake,~Monkeys sport on pendant branches, tigers steal beneath
1583 8, 1 | On her ears the golden pendants and the tiger's sharpened
1584 7, 1 | purpose told,~As he marked the pensive Rama wand'ring with his
1585 1, 1 | corn, and gold,~Galling penury and famine in Ayodhya had
1586 7, 1 | forest life,~Till a false perfidious Raksha stole his fair and
1587 5, 4 | winter's ample harvest men perform each pious rite,~To the
1588 3, 5 | Tamasa's limpid wave,~And performing night's devotions, for the
1589 10, 6 | army wails and sorrows,--he performs his rites again,~To the
1590 Epi | appear that the flourishing period of the Kosalas and the Videhas
1591 Epi | and beliefs of interesting periods in the progress of human
1592 10, 6 | the king of Rakshas will permit her blood be shed,~Indrajit
1593 4 | latitude of free thought was permitted. In Jabali, the poet depicts
1594 Epi | composed the great Epic which perpetuates their fame. Distance of
1595 4 | truth-loving, God-fearing man.~All persuasion was in vain, and Bharat
1596 4, 4 | who watch our actions, and pervade the earth and air!~Unto
1597 5, 4 | fragrant beauty and her tender petals lost!~Now my errant fancy
1598 End | Alexander and the Greeks as Peukelaotis. Thus the sons of Bharat
1599 4 | which a Greek sophist and philosopher could not have surpassed.
1600 4 | were different schools of philosophers, some of them orthodox and
1601 Epi | discoveries in science and philosophy gave them the foremost place
1602 2, 5 | spirit of the air,~Skilled physicians wait upon thee, priests
1603 12, 3 | Eighteen thousand golden pieces be the children -minstrels'
1604 6, 6 | heart and strong of hand!~Pierce thy eye with point of needle
1605 6, 6 | his wrath,~O'er a bed of pikes of iron tread a softer easier
1606 10, 12| with their chaunted mantras piled the dry and scented wood,~
1607 3 | by thousands of devoted pilgrims. The past is not dead and
1608 5, 3 | moistened earth and soft,~Pillared with the stately bamboo
1609 8, 1 | in the woodlands girt by pillars strong and high.~Snowy-white
1610 10, 3 | as the woodman fells the pine!~Bravest chiefs and countless
1611 3 | Dasa-ratha. The feeble old king pined away and died, remembering
1612 5 | thousand years ago. He was pioneer, discoverer and settler,-
1613 6, 6 | our lonely way.~This, O pious-hearted hermit, is his story of
1614 2, 3 | pathway rang with note of pipe and drum,~And the townsmen
1615 4, 2 | my life in exile like a pitying saint of heaven!~Thou shalt
1616 4, 2 | be her wedded lord,~As by planet-jewelled Midnight is the radiant
1617 9, 1 | unite,~Next, when varying plans and reasons blending lead
1618 2, 3 | of trees and posts they planted hung with lamps for coming
1619 3, 1 | greenwoods, wooded hills and plateaus high,~Limpid rills and crystal
1620 1, 6 | shining salvers, arghya plates for honoured guest,~Parchéd
1621 3, 6 | herds of lightsome monkeys play,~Men who view its towering
1622 3, 1 | care!"~Vainly gentle Rama pleaded dangers of the jungle life,~
1623 11, 1 | land to land!~But a woman pleadeth vainly when suspicion clouds
1624 9, 6 | chained in Lanka's prison pleads in piteous tear to Heaven?~
1625 8, 3 | flower nor scented creeper pleases Rama's anguished heart,~
1626 11 | Vasishtha, are among the most pleasing passages in the whole poem.
1627 7, 1 | here I lead a forest life,~Pledge of love and true alliance,
1628 4, 6 | monarch of Videha held the plough and tilled the earth,~From
1629 4, 6 | From the furrow made by ploughshare infant Sita sprang to birth,~
1630 3, 7 | Lakshman ever true and brave,~Plucked the fruit or smiling blossom
1631 10, 6 | father's sin and strife,~Plunder of the righteous neighbour,
1632 Epi | monarch of the Kurus not to plunge into a disastrous war, and
1633 5, 4 | was calm and brave~Rama plunged into the river'neath the
1634 1 | North Behar,--and in the plural number they mean the ancient
1635 7, 1 | serpent are these darts with points illumed,~And this day shall
1636 10, 6 | impious kinsman as we shun the pois'nous snake!~Listen, youth!
1637 6, 4 | Fickle is the faith of woman, poison-dealing is her tongue!~And thy censure,
1638 10, 10| ring car,~Slay the sin -polluted Ravan in this last and fatal
1639 10, 7 | caitiff's fate,~Woman's blood pollutes our valour, closes heaven'
1640 9, 10| lord and brother's death,~Ponder yet, O Raksha monarch, save
1641 3, 8 | lay before,~Weltering in a pool of red blood, lying on a
1642 1, 1 | insults in their frown,~Poorer fed not on the richer, hireling
1643 Epi | every great town and every populous village through the length
1644 4, 1 | deer-skin pure and peaceful, poring on the sacred flame,~In
1645 7, 6 | tamal tree!~Search the ocean port of Pattan shaded by its
1646 2, 5 | Asok shone,~Through the portico of splendour graced by silver,
1647 Epi | in 84 short sections, may possibly receive a hearing, even
1648 2, 3 | street,~Rows of trees and posts they planted hung with lamps
1649 10, 5 | foemen did his fatal arrows pour!~Fled the countless Vanar
1650 Epi | general reader who seeks for a practical acquaintance with the great
1651 3, 6 | from crystal well,~We would practise pious penance still on sacred
1652 6, 3 | brother Bharat oft will praise his strength and speed,~
1653 Epi | the ancient Sanscrit and Prakrits, in the ninth and tenth
1654 10, 6 | combat, time is none to prate or speak,~Boastful word
1655 3, 6 | Twenty miles from this Prayagya," spake the rishi pond'ring
1656 4, 4 | VAYU, shall my constant prayers run,~I shall live like happy
1657 10 | After these five warriors, pre-eminent for their prowess, various
1658 Epi | The reformer Chaitanya preached the same sublime monotheism
1659 10, 6 | Truth and Virtue in my heart precedence take,~And we shun the impious
1660 1, 4 | heard,~And the Brahmans and preceptors joyously the midnight spent,~
1661 Epi | make some mention of my predecessors in this work. The magnificent
1662 7, 5 | thunders shake the sky,~Pregnant with the ocean moisture
1663 1, 5 | V - THE PREPARATION~All his four heroic princes
1664 1, 2 | They shall ask him by his presence to adorn our palace balls~
1665 Epi | before M. Hippolyte Fauche presented the European world with
1666 2, 4 | accents said:~"Take thy presents back, Kaikeyi, for they
1667 6, 6 | racks thy tortured head,~Press thy red tongue cleft and
1668 8, 4 | consort's loving token Rama presses to his heart!~"As the mother-cow,
1669 7, 3 | Star-eyed Tara softly counselled pressing to her consort's side,~Mighty
1670 4, 3 | round their Sita as they prest,~As a mother clasps a daughter,
1671 10, 6 | thy father and this proud presumptuous state,~Lakshman meets thee,
1672 2, 6 | faintness o'er his feeble soul prevailed,~Stunned awhile remained
1673 Epi | hamlets of Southern India, the prevailing faith of the million is
1674 3, 2 | Immortals where perennial bliss prevails!~Grant me then thy sweet
1675 5, 3 | Rama, homeless wand'rer, priceless love like thine requite,~
1676 Epi | generation to generation by priestly families. Their researches
1677 11 | well as to recapitulate the principal incidents of his great Epic.~
1678 Epi | lithographed in Bombay, and a printed edition of the same recension
1679 9, 1 | woods of Lanka unto Rama's prisoned queen,~And audacious in
1680 7, 4 | as the sky,~Jatarupa and Priyangu, honey, curd and holy oil,~
1681 1, 2 | the weapon of my fathers prized by kings from age to age,~
1682 1, 3 | And our brother of Videha prizes Rama's warlike pride,~To
1683 Epi | India.~These remarks will be probably made clearer by a comparison
1684 1, 5 | promise, let the nuptial rites proceed~Thus the righteous-souled
1685 Epi | apparently after the fatal process of additions and interpolations
1686 11, 4 | brave,~Proudly o'er the gay procession did, Ayodhya's banners wave.~
1687 4, 4 | crooked way,~For the deed proclaims the hero from the man of
1688 7, 1 | alliance, Rama, take this proffered hand,~Banded by a common
1689 4, 4 | Tortuous wisdom brings no profit, virtue shuns the crooked
1690 4, 4 | rigid penances were vain,~Profitless the holy Vedas but for Truth
1691 Epi | interesting periods in the progress of human civilisation.~Sorrow
1692 1, 3 | Heaven,~I redeem my plighted promise-be thy kind permission given!~
1693 3, 1 | is mine,~For my father, promise-fettered, to Kaikeyi yields the sway,~
1694 5, 3 | Lakshman say,~"Thou art prompt to judge and fathom, Lakshman
1695 3, 8 | Spake the old and sightless prophet; then he made the funeral
1696 8 | island. Sita, scorning the proposals of Ravan, was kept in confinement
1697 5, 4 | the peaceful happy nations prosper on their fertile soil!~Mark
1698 1, 1 | And the nation thrived and prospered by its old and matchless
1699 3, 2 | Lakshman's guard her proud and prosperous reign!~All alone with gentle
1700 1, 5 | And he asks if Dasa-ratha prospers in his wonted health,~If
1701 5, 1 | men,~Grant us to thy kind protection in this hermit's lonely
1702 Epi | Bhima and Duryodban. Sita's protest and defiance, spoken to
1703 3, 4 | And the king for needs providing gave her robes and precious
1704 2, 2 | Effort needing strength and prowess-and my feeble limbs are old!~
1705 4, 6 | distant ground,~Midnight prowlers of the jungle steal beneath
1706 8, 1 | herd and kindred when the prowling wolves are near,~And her
1707 2, 4 | s wisdom, who that is a prudent wife.~Smiles in joy when
1708 Epi | Ramayana (Bengal recension), published with an Italian translation
1709 7, 6 | Mlechchas and the wild Pulindas in the rocky regions dwell,~
1710 1, 2 | Stalwart men of ample stature pulled the mighty iron car~In which
1711 7, 6 | rich in peopled centres, Pundra region of the brave,~Anga
1712 6, 2 | II - SURPA-YARUA PUNISHED~Rama heard her impious purpose
1713 8, 2 | Friend of piety and virtue, punisher of crime and sin,~Loved
1714 6 | smarting under insult and punishment she fires her brother Ravan,
1715 Epi | the reformer Nanak in the Punjab, in the sixteenth century.
1716 8, 1 | the vale and on the reef,~Punnaga and Saptaparna with its
1717 5, 4 | than the draught of nectar, purer than the crystal well,~And
1718 12 | might once more prove her purity in the great assembly, so
1719 End | had two sons, Taksha and Pushkala. The former founded Taksha-sila,
1720 End | Taxila. The latter founded Pushkala-vati, to the west of the Indus,
1721 2, 7 | and his bosom shall not quail,~Poisoned cup or death untimely,--
1722 9, 2 | foes:~"Wherefore, Ravan, quails thy bosom, gods against
1723 3, 6 | of song and spotted deer,~Quaked to see the princely strangers
1724 6, 5 | bright Moon's glories fade.~Quaking Nature knew the moment;
1725 Epi | majority of the people, quarrel about a name as they often
1726 3, 8 | utmost prowess, thus in quavering voice I said:~'Not thy son,
1727 6, 6 | king am I,~He whose valour quells the wide-world, Gods above
1728 3, 2 | offered insult and will quench our filial wrath!~But a
1729 10, 7 | VII - RAVAN'S LAMENT~"Quenched the light of Rakshas' valour!"
1730 3, 6 | oar,~And the strong boat quickly bounding left fair Ganga'
1731 6 | Sita Lost)~WE exchange the quiet life of Rama in holy hermitages
1732 6, 4 | death as true in life!"~Quivered Lakshman's frame in anguish
1733 3, 8 | lay!~From his pierced and quivering bosom then the cruel dart
1734 10, 8 | Sataghni and bhindipala, quoit and discus quick to strike.~
1735 10, 3 | Welcome, valiant son of Ra-hu! Ravan longs to lay thee
1736 2, 7 | piercing painful ailment rack his limbs with cruel smart,~
1737 6, 6 | point of needle till it racks thy tortured head,~Press
1738 6, 7 | kindred thou shalt reap from Ragu's son!~Darksome woods of
1739 8, 3 | regains her lustre freed from Rahu's shadows dark!~And with
1740 7, 2 | comrade comes Sugriva to this raid,~Not with feeble friend
1741 2, 4 | thee, wicked woman, thus to rail in bitter tone,~Shall not
1742 2, 7 | Bark of trees shall be thy raiment and thy home the hermit'
1743 9, 9 | words be ne'er so kind!~Rain-drops fall upon the lotus but
1744 7, 2 | loving word:~Wherefore like a rain-fed torrent swells thy passion
1745 9, 1 | thoughts decree,~Speak with rainds and hearts united, shape
1746 4, 6 | pious blessings she had rained.~In the rishi's peaceful
1747 2, 6 | roll the world in darkness, rainless may the harvests thrive,~
1748 7, 1 | famed for sacrifice divine,~Raja-suya, Aswa-medha, and for gift
1749 11 | BOOK XI - RAJYA-ABHISHEKA~(Rama's Return and Consecration)~
1750 10, 4 | crush his giant might!"~Rallied thus, the broken army stone
1751 Epi | talented and indefatigable Mr. Ralph Griffith, C.I.E., who has
1752 11 | men during the reign of Rama--described in the last few
1753 4 | BOOK IV - RAMA-BHARATA-SAMBADA~(The Meeting of the Princes)~
1754 Epi | ancient Epics-Krishna and Rama-to be the incarnations of that
1755 Epi | twelfth century; the reformer Ramananda proclaimed the same faith
1756 1, 1 | Guarded well her lofty ramparts as the lions guard the cave.~
1757 10, 5 | fair,~Spear and mace were ranged in order, dart and bow and
1758 4, 3 | royal hall and mansions, ranger of the darksome wood,~Reft
1759 6, 7 | courts destruction, stealing Rania's faithful dame,~Rama and
1760 10 | Vanars and Rakshas took their rank.~The war ended with the
1761 3, 2 | can never fail,~And the rapiers bright as sunshine, golden-hilted,
1762 6, 3 | gallant Lakshman," thus the raptur'd Sita spake,~"Mark the
1763 11, 4 | jewelled sandals with the rarest gems inlaid,~Placed them
1764 9 | the youngest brother of Ravail, and condemned the folly
1765 10 | was Indrajit the son of Ravana, but he was the first in
1766 9 | BOOK IX - RAVANA-SABHA~(The Council of War)~RAVAN
1767 6, 5 | Smiling lips that tempt and ravish, lustre that thy dark eyes
1768 3, 6 | when the sun withdrew his rays,~Where the vast and sea-like
1769 6, 6 | cleft and bleeding on the razor's shining blade,~Hurl thyself
1770 Epi | Having placed before English readers a condensed translation
1771 6, 7 | race and kindred thou shalt reap from Ragu's son!~Darksome
1772 4, 1 | leaves and twining branches, reared by Lakshman's faithful might.~
1773 Epi | of that poem within the reasonable limit of 2,000 verses. And
1774 11 | of India, as well as to recapitulate the principal incidents
1775 3, 6 | dwelling-place assigned,~As a host receives a stranger, welcomed them
1776 12 | feats of memory and by such recitals that literature was preserved
1777 12, 2 | the Epic, morn to night, recite each day,~Till from end
1778 11, 4 | and offerings make,~Bards, reciters of Puranas, minstrels versed
1779 10, 2 | widowed queen,~How she reckons days and seasons in her
1780 Epi | popular monotheism generally recognises the heroes of the two ancient
1781 Epi | story in which the monarch recounts his misdeed of past years,
1782 7 | and they helped him to recover his wife from the king of
1783 Epi | unending battles waged for her recovery, occupied generations of
1784 10, 8 | speedy vengeance tell,~Be the red-earth strewn and covered with
1785 2, 6 | his eyeballs flamed with redfire, to the queen as thus he
1786 5, 3 | eaves,~Held the thatch of reed and branches and of jungle
1787 8, 1 | Champak in the vale and on the reef,~Punnaga and Saptaparna
1788 7, 3 | neath the blow terrific Bali reeled and almost fell,~As a proud
1789 7, 3 | As a proud ship overladen reels upon the ocean's swell!~
1790 12 | the people of Ayodhya made reflections on the conduct of their
1791 Epi | has inspired our religious reformers, and purified the popular
1792 Epi | literatures, and religious reforms, is to comprehend the real
1793 4 | of a ruler, and his firm refusal to Bharat's passionate appeal
1794 4 | his brother's exile, and refused the throne which had been
1795 8, 3 | sent a spark,~As the Moon regains her lustre freed from Rahu'
1796 Epi | kindliness of the prince, regards his proposed coronation
1797 3, 1 | willeth,--Bharat shall be regent-heir,~Serve him with a loyal
1798 6, 6 | wait,~Thou shalt be their reigning empress, thou shalt own
1799 3, 4 | good and kind:~"Draw the reins, benign Sumantra, slowly
1800 Epi | were described with endless reiteration. The long account of the
1801 6 | Rama and for Lakshman is rejected with scorn, and smarting
1802 2 | princely virtues and the rejoicings at his proposed coronation,
1803 1 | Bridal of Sita)~THE Epic relates to the ancient traditions
1804 3, 1 | And to please each dear relation, gentle Sita, be it thine,~
1805 7, 3 | they battled,--brothers and relentless foes,~Like the sun and moon
1806 Epi | poet of the Maha-Bharata relies on the real or supposed
1807 12, 5 | faithful wife,~Mother Earth I relieve thy Sita from the burden
1808 4, 4 | seek no spacious reasons my relinquished throne to win,~Gods nor
1809 4, 4 | still unchanging shall remain my promise given~To my mother
1810 Epi | million in India.~These remarks will be probably made clearer
1811 Epi | taught in the family circle, remembered and cherished through life.
1812 3 | king pined away and died, remembering and recounting on his death-bed
1813 2, 3 | fire,~Piously partook the remnant, sought for NARAYANA'S aid,~
1814 9, 7 | and his limb from limb I rend!~Wiser heads than Kumbha-karna
1815 8, 4 | potent drug her accents renovate my fainting life,~Arm thy
1816 Epi | of this volume is not to repeat the long poem which Rama'
1817 12, 4 | righteous fame!~In his tears repentant Rama to Valmiki message
1818 Epi | weakened by such endless repetition. It would appear that the
1819 Epi | tired of listening to such repetitions. The virtues of Rama and
1820 Epi | determination with which Duryodhan replied:-~"Town nor village, mart
1821 Epi | in a hostile prison only represent in an exaggerated form the
1822 6, 2 | purpose and a gentle smile repressed,~To the foul and forward
1823 10 | But almost every sally was repulsed, every chief was killed,
1824 1, 6 | ordaineth, and as sacred laws require,~Stepped each bride and
1825 5, 3 | priceless love like thine requite,~Let him hold thee in his
1826 10, 2 | danger, court thy fate to rescue me,~Didst thou hurl a fitting
1827 2, 5 | Till from death and danger rescued, thou wert by a promise
1828 8, 3 | Rama true and bold,~Till he rescues cherished Sita from the
1829 Epi | indicate in what respects it resembles the Maha-Bharata, and in
1830 4 | the throne which had been reserved for him. He wandered through
1831 3, 1 | husband faithful Sita would reside!~Therefore let me seek the
1832 4, 6 | sought the hermitage,~Where resided saintly Atri, Vedic Bard
1833 5 | with Saint Agastya, and his residence on the banks of the Godavari
1834 5, 2 | Arundhati in her mansion still resides,~Rest thee with thy gentle
1835 Epi | becomes a desperate woman, resolved to maintain her own influence
1836 5, 3 | grove,~And the valleys are resonant with the peacock's clarion
1837 Epi | a Perfect Life. In this respect the Ramayana gives us a
1838 1, 4 | high,~And his royal love responding, Dasa-ratha made reply:~"
1839 4, 1 | cast a dread and lurid ray,~Resting in their golden scabbards
1840 4, 2 | thee, nor on thy mother, rests the censure or the blame,~
1841 6 | Indian thinkers, are but the results of our misdeeds; calamities
1842 2, 6 | died!"~"Fair thy form," resumed the monarch, "beauty dwells
1843 1, 4 | With each priest and proud retainer Dasa-ratha led the way,~
1844 7, 3 | embraces and amidst thy maids retire,~Woman's love and soft devotion
1845 7, 3 | bosom Tara with her maids retired,~Bali issued proud and stately
1846 10 | Lakshman in battle, and never retreated except before Rama. Next
1847 3, 4 | chariot hie,~As the mother-cow returneth to her young that loiters
1848 6, 4 | Rakshas roam the forest to revenge their leader slain,~Various
1849 6, 2 | faded beauty dost thou still revere thy dame?~But beware a Raksha'
1850 3 | says a writer in Calcutta Review, vol. xxii, "on that green
1851 2, 5 | winter 'neath the sun's reviving ray!"~Blinded was the ancient
1852 2, 5 | Rolls my chariot-wheel revolving from the sea to farthest
1853 2, 5 | by a promise bound,~Two rewards my husband offered, what
1854 2, 6 | harvests thrive,~But from ri~hteous Rama severed, never
1855 1, 1 | frown,~Poorer fed not on the richer, hireling friend upon the
1856 9, 5 | of deepest wile,~I will rid thee of thy foemen and of
1857 2, 4 | Pushya's constellation gaily rides to-morrow's moon,~Happy
1858 5, 3 | branches, corded from the ridge to eaves,~Held the thatch
1859 4 | of the broadest type. He ridicules the ideas of Duty and of
1860 12 | the ancient hymns of the Rig Veda, Sita is simply the
1861 5, 1 | holy love!~Girt by hermits righteous-hearted then the Saint Agastya came,~
1862 1, 5 | nuptial rites proceed~Thus the righteous-souled Vasishtha to Videha's monarch
1863 11, 4 | more,~Thou shalt hold thy rightful empire and assume thy royal
1864 3, 1 | lord:~"Do I hear my husband rightly, are these words my Rama
1865 10, 6 | in secret hies,~For the rights which yield him prowess,
1866 1, 4 | in sacred sweet content.~Rigliteous Rama, gallant Lakshman piously
1867 5, 4 | December and the night with rime is hoar,~And beneath the
1868 4, 1 | Is this be whose wreathéd ringlets fresh and holy fragrance
1869 5, 2 | woodland stay,~Where the ripening wild fruit clusters and
1870 5, 1 | broad and bending branches ripening-, fruits in clusters hung,~
1871 3, 1 | crystal nullas as they softly ripple by,~And where in the lake
1872 3, 1 | With her lord she falls or rises, with her consort courts
1873 1, 2 | spake the monarch to the risha famed of old,~To the true
1874 10, 4 | fell in his pride.~Next Rishabha and brave Nila and the bold
1875 2, 2 | INDRA-like in peerless valour, rishi-like in holy lore,~Rama follows
1876 11, 3 | throne,~And the hill of Rishyamuka where Sugriva first I met,~
1877 11, 1 | the ocean in your pride,~Risked your fife in endless combats
1878 Epi | spirited.~And yet, without rivalling the heroic grandeur of the
1879 Epi | among warlike suitors. The rivalry between Rama and Ravan,
1880 7, 3 | claws of tigers and with riven rocks and trees,~And as
1881 3, 6 | thee our homage bring,~With rny wife, the saintly Sita,
1882 3, 5 | northward, then returning to the road,~By his master and his consort
1883 2, 3 | And the children by the roadside lisped of Rama brave and
1884 5, 1 | dun deer free and fearless roamed within the holy shade,~Where
1885 3, 7 | shone,~And the buck was duly roasted and the tender meat was
1886 11, 5 | their babes by YAMA crost,~Robbers, cheats, and gay deceivers
1887 4, 6 | mother's love,~Gave her robe and holy garland, jewelled
1888 10, 11| upon the earth and ocean, rode upon the laden breeze!~Voice
1889 6, 3 | fair,~Chowri and the gentle roebuck, antelope of beauty rare,~
1890 Epi | during three thousand years.~ROMESH DUTT.~UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,
1891 5, 3 | bamboo holding high the roof aloft,~Interlacing twigs
1892 Epi | life the Ramayana sends its roots deeper into the hearts and
1893 Epi | Every Aryan boy assumed the rough garment and the staff and
1894 6, 5 | Tall and slender, softly rounded, are thy limbs of beauty
1895 11, 1 | consort fond and faithful roved with thee from land to land!~
1896 8, 4 | speaks again her loving row,~Ah, the sad, the sweet
1897 2, 3 | spacious mart and street,~Rows of trees and posts they
1898 2, 5 | bright and blossoming creeper rudely severed from the earth,~
1899 6, 5 | may be thy parents high,~Rudras or the radiant Maruts, Vassus
1900 7, 1 | of wife,~Fleeing to these rugged mountains I endure a forest
1901 7, 3 | resistless in his pride,~And like running rills from mountains poured
1902 5, 4 | date,~Peopled marts and rural hamlets wake to life and
1903 9, 10| wrathful Raksha and in fury rushed before.~"But I spare thee,
1904 3, 6 | much I fear,~Crowds of rustics oft will trespass on thy
1905 5, 4 | home!~And my loving mem'ry lingers on each word from
1906 11 | to Oudh to give us a bird's-eye view of the whole continent
1907 8, 3 | INDRA greets his goddess, SACHI dearer than his life,~Trust
1908 3, 6 | Sita honoured by Prayaga's Sacre.~
1909 10, 6 | is found,~Slay the secret sacrificer on the sacrificial ground!"~
1910 10, 5 | Witness Sun and Moon and Sadhyas, and the living God of Fire!~
1911 8, 2 | father's royal seat,~Now Sagriva's countless forces wander
1912 11, 4 | the pealing vault of sky!~Sailing o'er the cloudless ether
1913 4, 6 | how by the stars encircled sails the radiant Lord of Night,~
1914 7, 6 | Yavanas of wondrous skill,~Sakas swooping from their gorges,
1915 10 | followed was a succession of sallies by the great leaders and
1916 1, 6 | Sanka bowls and shining salvers, arghya plates for honoured
1917 5, 3 | Aswa-karna and Khadira by the Sami dark and fair,~Beauteous
1918 Epi | ennobling in the human character sanctifies the work; and delineations
1919 3, 7 | So our sacred Sastras sanction," thus the righteous Rama
1920 Epi | of Rama's brothers, the sanctity of saints, and the peace
1921 1, 1 | earring, wreath and fragrant sandal paste,~And their arms were
1922 5, 4 | misty streamlet o'er its sandbank soaked in dew,~And the drooping
1923 6, 5 | the star of Chitra, planet Sani walks the sky!~Ravan stood
1924 1, 6 | with sacred honey filled,~Sanka bowls and shining salvers,
1925 8, 1 | on the reef,~Punnaga and Saptaparna with its seven-fold scented
1926 10, 4 | brave Nila and the bold Sarabha came,~Gavaksha and Gandha-madan,
1927 5, 1 | each haunt of holy sage,~Sarabhanga's sacred dwelling and Sutikshna'
1928 Epi | of Charles Albert King of Sardinia in 1843-67, first introduced
1929 3, 7 | cottage made.~"So our sacred Sastras sanction," thus the righteous
1930 10, 8 | and club and axe and pike,~Sataghni and bhindipala, quoit and
1931 End | had two sons, Suvahu and Satrughati. The former became king
1932 2, 7 | Bharat lives with brave Satrughns, in thy father's realms
1933 1, 1 | bright twins, Lakshman and Satruglina bold,~Four brave princes
1934 6, 2 | wrongly, for with those of savage breed,~Word in jest is courting
1935 9, 7 | of wisdom timely spoken saves from death and dangers dire,~
1936 3 | We have often looked," says a writer in Calcutta Review,
1937 4, 1 | Resting in their golden scabbards lay the sword of warriors
1938 11, 1 | fame!~If a false and lying scandal brings a faithful woman
1939 10, 5 | sunbeams through a cloud.~Scanning earth and bright sky vainly
1940 6, 3 | the lake and in the dale,~'Scaping every trap, Maricha, pierced
1941 5, 1 | down the ranks of foemen, scathing like the forest fire!~Be
1942 4 | the speech of Jabali the Sceptic, who denied heaven and a
1943 Epi | which narrates the dark scheme by which the prince was
1944 Epi | Hindu listener of the old school; but a selection of the
1945 9, 8 | Bibhishan's counsel hear,~Scion of the race of Rakshas speaks
1946 Epi | infinite pathos domestic scones and domestic affections
1947 10, 7 | heaving chest,~Like the sun of scorching summer glowed his face in
1948 3, 6 | followed close,~Till behind the screening foliage hermits' peaceful
1949 1, 5 | sacred word is sacred deed,~Seal with gift thy plighted promise,
1950 11, 1 | and his lips were firmly sealed,~And his eye betraved no
1951 7, 6 | And each busy mart and seaport on the western ocean wave,~
1952 2, 2 | white umbrella's shade!"~Searching still their secret purpose,
1953 2, 5 | shone,~And the rooms with seats of silver, ivory bench and
1954 3, 6 | have won,~Holy is the fair seclusion for thy purpose suited well,~
1955 2, 4 | banish friendless Bharat and secure his peace with blood!~Thou
1956 6, 7 | from the small and living seed,~For this deed of insult,
1957 3, 2 | great preceptor's hall,~Seekand bring them, faithful brother,
1958 6, 4 | dread and lonesome land,~Seekest thou the death of elder
1959 | seem
1960 | seemed
1961 | seeming
1962 Epi | of the old school; but a selection of the leading portions
1963 Epi | man's life, devotion and self-abnegation are still more essentially
1964 4, 4 | forged these maxims and with selfish objects say,~Make thy gifts
1965 6, 4 | deep deceitful art,~In thy semblance of compassion dost thou
1966 2, 7 | VII - THE SENTENCE~Morning came and duteous
1967 8 | Sita in Ceylon. Ceylon is separated from India by a broad channel
1968 3, 8 | Retribution of his karma, sequence of a mighty plan!~Oft in
1969 6, 5 | woodlands with her eyes serenely fair,~With her bark-clad
1970 10, 1 | INDRAJIT'S FIRST BATTLE--THE SERPENT-NOOSE~Darkly round the leaguered
1971 10, 6 | see thee leave thy kin,~Serving as a slave of foemen, stooping
1972 Epi | entered the married life and settled down as a householder. Every
1973 5 | founded the first Aryan settlement in the Deccan, three thousand
1974 5 | pioneer, discoverer and settler,-the Indian Columbus who
1975 5, 2 | a deeper, darker shadow settles on the rock and rill."~"
1976 8, 1 | and Saptaparna with its seven-fold scented leaf,~Rich in blossoms
1977 1 | the Epic.~Janak ordained a severe test for the hand of his
1978 7, 5 | holy hermits, stand yon shadow-mantled hills,~Murmuring mantras
1979 7, 5 | power,~As the lightning shakes and quivers in this dark
1980 Epi | more vividly described. Shakespeare himself has not depicted
1981 10, 6 | their pride,~Makaraksha, shark-eyed warrior, vainly struggled
1982 8, 1 | pendants and the tiger's sharpened tooth,~On her arms the jewelled
1983 10, 7 | exclaimed the monarch, "she-wolf Sita dies to-day,~Indrajit
1984 10, 9 | arrows, useless hangs his sheathéd brand!~Art thou fallen,
1985 10, 1 | drum and horn and echoing shell,~And the neigh of charging
1986 11, 3 | eaves of corals, strewing shells upon the shore,~And the
1987 10, 6 | caitiff safe behind thy sheltering shroud,~Now I seek an open
1988 8, 2 | HOPE~Hanuman from leafy shelters lifts his voice in sacred
1989 1, 2 | is Janak's ancient bow,~Shew it to Ayodhya's princes,
1990 5, 3 | Proudly then unto his elder shewed the home his hand had made.~
1991 3, 4 | linkéd armour, sword and shield and lances brave.~Then the
1992 7, 3 | almost fell,~As a proud ship overladen reels upon the
1993 12, 1 | forest by the limpid Gumti's shom.~Monarchs came and warlike
1994 4, 2 | the war,~With the men who shoot the arrow and who drive
1995 2, 3 | ample warehouse, on the shop with stores displayed,~On
1996 3 | the Jumna, the southern shores of which were then covered
1997 2, 7 | And he saw his aged father shorn of kingly pomp and pride,~
1998 2, 6 | Rama, loved of people, thou shouldst banish from his own?~Banish
1999 11, 4 | ten thousand jocund voices shouted Rama's joyous name,~Women
2000 1, 2 | RUDRA be to princely Rama shown."~Janak spake his royal