{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry426.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry426.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry426.htm","text":"'Yet more remain, brave chiefs who stake\n Their noble lives for R\u00e1ma's sake.\n See, glorious, golden-coated, one\n Who glisters like the morning sun,\n Whom thousands of his race surround,\n 'Tis Hara for his strength renowned,\n Next comes a mighty chieftain, he\n Whose legions, armed with rock and tree,\n Press on, in numbers passing tale,\n The ramparts of our town to scale.\n O R\u00e1van, see the king advance\n Terrific with his fiery glance,\n Girt by the bravest of his train,\n Majestic as the God of Rain,\n Parjanya, when his host of clouds\n About the king, embattled, crowds:\n On Rikshav\u00e1n's high mountain nursed,\n In Narmad\u00e1 \u00a01b he slakes his thirst,\n Dh\u00famra, proud ursine chief, who leads\n Wild warriors whom the forest breeds.\n His brother, next in strength and age,\n In J\u00e1mbav\u00e1n the famous sage.\n Of yore his might and skill he lent\n To him who rules the firmament,\n And Indra's liberal boons repaid\n The chieftain for the timely aid.\n There like a gloomy cloud that flies\n Borne by the tempest through the skies,\n Pram\u00e1th\u00ed stands: he roamed of yore\n The forest wilds on Gang\u00e1's shore,\n Where elephants were struck with dread\n And trembling at his coming fled.\n There on his foes he loved to sate\n The old hereditary hate. \u00a02b\n \n \n Look, Gaja and Gav\u00e1ksha show\n Their lust of battle with the foe.\n See Nala burning for the fray,\n And N\u00edla chafing at delay,\n Behind the eager captains press\n Wild hosts in numbers numberless,\n And each for R\u00e1ma's sake would fall\n Or force his way through Lank\u00e1's wall.'\n \n \n \n \n448:1b The Anglicized Nerbudda.\n448:2b According to a Pauranik legend Kes'ar\u00ed Han\u00fam\u00e1n's putative father had killed an Asur or demon who appeared in the p. 449 form of an elephant, and hence arose the hostility between V\u00e1nars and elephants.","title":"BOOK VI: Canto XXVII.: The V\u00e1nar Chiefs.","type":"page"}