{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry401.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry401.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry401.htm","text":"He ceased: and King Sugr\u00edva tried\n To calm his grief, and thus replied:\n 'Be to thy nobler nature true,\n Nor let despair thy soul subdue.\n This cloud of causeless woe dispel,\n For all as yet has prospered well,\n And we have traced thy queen, and know\n The dwelling of our R\u00e1kshas foe.\n Arise, consult: thy task must be\n To cast a bridge athwart the sea,\n The city of our foe to reach\n That crowns the mountain by the beach;\n \n \n And when our feet that isle shall tread,\n Rejoice and deem thy foeman dead.\n The sea unbridged, his walls defy\n Both fiends and children of the sky,\n Though at the fierce battalions' head\n Lord Indra's self the onset led.\n Yea, victory is thine before\n The long bridge touch the farther shore,\n So fleet and fierce and strong are these\n Who limb them as their fancies please.\n Away with grief and sad surmise\n That mar the noblest enterprise,\n And with their weak suspicion blight\n The sage's plan, the hero's might.\n Come, this degenerate weakness spurn,\n And bid thy dauntless heart return,\n For each fair hope by grief is crossed\n When those we love are dead or lost.\n Arise, O best of those who know,\n Arm for the giant's overthrow.\n None in the triple world I see\n Who in the fight may equal thee;\n None who before thy face may stand\n And brave the bow that arms thy hand,\n Trust to these mighty V\u00e1nars: they\n With full success thy trust will pay,\n When thou shalt reach the robber's hold,\n And loving arms round S\u00edt\u00e1 fold.'\n \n \n \n \n427:1b The Sixth Book is called in Sanskrit Yuddha-K\u00e1nda or The War, and Lank\u00e1-K\u00e1nda. It is generally known at the present day by the latter title.\n427:2b V\u00e1yu is the God of Wind.\n427:3b Garuda the King of Birds.\n427:4b Serpent-Gods.","title":"BOOK VI: Canto II.: Sugr\u00edva's Speech.","type":"page"}