{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry375.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry375.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry375.htm","text":"With joyous heart she heard him tell\n Of the great lord she loved so well,\n And in sweet accents, soft and low,\n Spoke, half forgetful of her woe:\n 'How didst thou stand by R\u00e1ma's side?\n How came my lord and thou allied?\n How met the people of the wood\n With men on terms of brotherhood?\n Declare each grace and regal sign\n That decks the lords of Raghu's line.\n Each circumstance and look relate\n Tell R\u00e1ma's form and speech, and gait.'\n \u00a0\u00a0 'Thy fear and doubt,' he cried, 'dispelled,\n Hear, lady, what mine eyes beheld.\n Hear the imperial signs that grace\n The glory of Ikshv\u00e1ku's race.\n With moon-bright face and lotus eyes,\n Most beautiful and good and wise,\n With sun-like glory round his head,\n Long-suffering as the earth we tread,\n He from all foes his realm defends.\n Yea, o'er the world his care extends.\n He follows right in all his ways,\n And ne'er from royal duty strays.\n \n \n He knows the lore that strengthens kings;\n His heart to truth and honour clings.\n Each grace and gift of form and mind\n Adorns that prince of human kind;\n And virtues like his own endue\n His brother ever firm and true.\n O'er all the land they roamed distaught,\n And thee with vain endeavour sought,\n Until at length their wandering feet\n Trod wearily our wild retreat.\n Our banished king Sugr\u00edva spied\n The princes from the mountain side.\n By his command I sought the pair\n And led them to our monarch there.\n Thus R\u00e1ma and Sugr\u00edva met,\n And joined the bonds that knit them yet,\n When each besought the other's aid,\n And friendship and alliance made.\n An arrow launched from R\u00e1ma's bow\n Laid B\u00e1li dead, Sugr\u00edva's foe.\n Then by commandment of our lord\n The V\u00e1nar hosts each land explored.\n We reached the coast: I crossed the sea\n And found my way at length to thee.' \u00a01b\n \n \n \n \n414:1 Kuvera the God of Gold.","title":"BOOK V: Canto XXXV.: Hanuman's Speech.","type":"page"}