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When Ráma, valiant hero, stood In the vast shade of Dandak wood, His eyes on every side he bent And saw a hermit sett…
Thus entertained he passed the night, Then, with the morning's early light, To all the hermits bade adieu And sought …
Virádha with a fearful shout That echoed through the wood, cried out: 'What men are ye, I bid you say, And whither wo…
But Sítá viewed with wild affright The heroes hurried from her sight. She tossed her shapely arms on high, And shriek…
Then Ráma, having slain in fight Virádha of terrific might, With gentle words his spouse consoled, And clasped her in…
When he his heavenly home had found, The holy men who dwelt around To Ráma flocked, whose martial fame Shone glorious…
So Raghu's son, his foemen's dread, With Sítá and his brother sped, Girt round by many a twice-born sage, To good Sut…
So Ráma and Sumttrá's son, When every honour due was done, Slept through the night. When morning broke, The heroes fr…
Blest by the sage, when Raghu's son His onward journey had begun, Thus in her soft tone Sítá, meek With modest fear, …
The words that Sítá uttered, spurred By truest love, the hero heard: Then he who ne'er from virtue strayed To Janak's…
Ráma went foremost of the three, Next Sítá, followed, fair to see, And Lakshman with his bow in hand Walked hindmost …
He spoke: the younger prince obeyed: Within the bounds his way he made, And thus addressed, whom first he met, A pupi…
'O Ráma, great delight I feel, Pleased, Lakshman, with thy faithful zeal, That you within these shades I see Vith Sit…
Then as the son of Raghu made His way to Panchavatí's shade, A mighty vulture he beheld Of size and strength unparall…
Arrived at Panchavatí's shade Where silvan life and serpents strayed, Ráma in words like these addressed Lakshman of …
While there the high-souled hero spent His tranquil hours in sweet content, The glowing autumn passed, and then Came …
The bathing and the prayer were o'er; He turned him from the grassy shore, And with his brother and his spouse Sought…
On her ensnared in Ráma's net His eyes the royal Rama set, And thus, her passion to beguile, Addressed her with a gen…
When Khara saw his sister lie With blood-stained limbs and troubled eye, Wild fury in his bosom woke, And thus the mo…
Fierce S'úrpanakhá with her train To Ráma's dwelling came again, And to the eager giants showed Where Sítá and the yo…
Low in the dust he saw her lie, And Khara's wrath grew fierce and high, Aloud he cried to her who came Disgracefully …
Roused by the taunting words she spoke, The mighty Khara's wrath awoke, And there, while giants girt him round, In th…
As forth upon its errand went That huge ferocious armament, An awful cloud, in dust and gloom, With threatening thund…
While Khara urged by valiant rage, Drew near that little hermitage, Those wondrous signs in earth and sky Smote on ea…