{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry376.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry376.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry376.htm","text":"'Receive,' he cried, 'this precious ring, \u00a02b\n Sure token from thy lord the king:\n The golden ring he wont to wear:\n See, R\u00e1ma's name engraven there.'\n Then, as she took the ring he showed,\n The tears that spring of rapture flowed.\n She seemed to touch the hand that sent\n The dearly valued ornament,\n And with her heart again at ease,\n Replied in gentle words like these:\n 'O thou, whose soul no fears deter.\n Wise, brave, and faithful messenger!\n And hast thou dared, o'er wave and foam,\n To seek me in the giants' home!\n In thee, true messenger, I find\n The noblest of thy woodland kind.\n Who couldst, unmoved by terror, brook\n On R\u00e1van, king of fiends, to look.\n \n \n Now may we commune here as friends,\n For he whom royal R\u00e1ma sends\n Must needs he one in danger tried,\n A valiant, wise, and faithful guide.\n Say, is it well with R\u00e1ma still?\n Lives Lakshman yet untouched by ill?\n Then why should R\u00e1ma's hand be slow\n To free his consort from her woe?\n Why spare to burn, in search of me,\n The land encircled by the sea?\n Can Bharat send no army out\n With banners, cars and battle shout?\n Cannot thy king Sugr\u00edva lend\n His legions to assist his friend?'\n \u00a0\u00a0 His hands upon his head he laid\n And thus again his answer made:\n 'Not yet has R\u00e1ma learnt where lies\n His lady of the lotus eyes,\n Or he like Indra from the sky\n To S'ach\u00ed's \u00a01 aid, to thee would fly.\n Soon will he hear the tale, and then,\n Roused to revenge, the lord of men\n Will to the giants' island lead\n Fierce myriads of the woodland breed,\n Bridging his conquering way, and make\n The town a ruin for thy sake.\n Believe my words, sweet dame; I swear\n By roots and fruit, my woodland fare,\n By Meru's peak and Vindhva's chain,\n And Mandar of the Milky Main,\n Soon shalt thou see thy lord, though now\n He waits upon Prasravan's \u00a02 brow,\n Come glorious as the breaking morn,\n Like Indra on Air\u00e1vat \u00a03 borne.\n For thee he looks with longing eyes;\n The wood his scanty food supplies.\n For thee his brow is pale and worn,\n For thee are meat and wine forsworn.\n Thine image in his heart he keeps,\n For thee by night he wakes and weeps.\n Or if perchance his eyes he close\n And win brief respite from his woes,\n E'en then the name of S\u00edt\u00e1 slips\n In anguish from his murmuring lips.\n If lovely flowers or fruit lie sees,\n Which women love, upon the trees,\n To thee, to thee his fancy flies.\n And 'S\u00edt\u00e1! O my love!' he cries.'\n \n \n414:1b S\u00edt\u00e1 of course knows nothing of what has happened to R\u00e1ma since the time when she was carried away by R\u00e1van, The poet therefore thinks it necessary to repeat the whole story of the meeting between R\u00e1ma and Sugr\u00edva, the defeat of B\u00e1li, and subsequent events. I give the briefest possible outline of the story.\n414:2b DE GUBERNATIS thinks that this ring which the Sun R\u00e1ma sends to the Dawn S\u00edt\u00e1 is a symbol of the sun's disc.\n415:1 S'ach\u00ed is the loved and lovely wife of Indra, and she is taken as the type of a woman protected by a jealous and all-powerful husband.\n415:2 The mountain near Kishkindh\u00e1.\n415:3 Air\u00e1vat is the mighty elephant on which Indra delights to ride.","title":"BOOK V: Canto XXXVI.: R\u00e1ma's Ring.","type":"page"}