By Anonymous, Romesh Dutt
ISBN-10: 1420942476
ISBN-13: 9781420942477
The "Ramayana" is an historical Sanskrit epic originating in India and courting from not less than the 3rd century BC. it's not a unmarried textual content, yet as an alternative is made from many texts, in addition to oral renditions. characteristically, it truly is ascribed to the Hindu sage, Valmiki. even if, the paintings because it is referred to now is thought to have many insertions of a far later date than the unique paintings. It varieties a tremendous a part of the Hindu canon reflecting spiritual, political, social ideals, and ethical doctrines of Hindu foundation. The "Ramayana" tale combines romance, myth, magic and experience because it recounts the lifetime of Rama-the 7th incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, his brother Lakshmana-his spouse Sita, the enemy Ravana, a number of demons, and a military of monkeys dependable to Rama led through Hanuman. It includes the lessons of old Hindu mentors and offers them in narrative allegory, exploring the tenets of human lifestyles and the concept that of dharma. provided the following during this quantity is an variation abridged via Romesh Dutt.
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Of Book ii. of the original text. I. THE MEETING OF THE BROTHERS Sorrowing for his sire departed Bharat to Ayodhya came, But the exile of his brother stung his noble heart to flame, Scorning sin−polluted empire, travelling with each widowed queen, Sought through wood and trackless jungle Chitra−kuta's peaceful scene. Royal guards and Saint Vasishtha loitered with the dames behind, Onward pressed the eager Bharat, Rama's hermit−home to find, Nestled in a jungle thicket, Rama's cottage rose in sight, BOOK IV.
Straining all my utmost prowess, thus in quavering voice I said: V. CROSSING THE TAMASA: THE CITIZENS' RETURN 47 RAMAYANA 'Not thy son, O holy hermit, but a Khsatra warrior born, Dasa−ratha stands before thee by a cruel anguish torn, For I came to slay the tusker by Sarayu's wooded brink, Buffalo or deer of jungle stealing for his midnight drink, And I heard a distant gurgle, some wild beast the water drunk,−− So I thought,−−some jungle tusker lifting water with its trunk, And I sent my fatal arrow on the unknown, unseen prey, Speeding to the spot I witnessed,−there a dying hermit lay!
And around the aged monarch rose the piercing voice of pain, Like the wail of forest creatures when the forest−king is slain, And the faint and feeble monarch was with age and anguish pale, Like the darkened moon at eclipse when his light and radiance fail! Rama saw his ancient father with a faltering footstep go, Used to royal pomp and splendour, stricken now by age and woe, Saw his mother faint and feeble to the speeding chariot hie, As the mother−cow returneth to her young that loiters by, Still she hastened to the chariot, "Rama!
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