{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry438.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry438.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry438.htm","text":"They slept secure: the sun arose\n And called the chieftains from repose.\n Before the wondering V\u00e1nars, gay\n With grove and garden, Lank\u00e1 lay,\n Where golden buds the Champak showed,\n And bright with bloom As'oka glowed,\n And palm and S\u00e1l and many a tree\n With leaf and flower were fair to see.\n They looked on wood and lawn and glade,\n On emerald grass and dusky shade,\n Where creepers filled the air with scent.\n And luscious fruit the branches bent,\n Where bees inebriate loved to throng,\n And each sweet bird was loud in song.\n The wondering V\u00e1nars passed the bound\n That circled that enchanting ground,\n And as they came a sweet breeze through\n The odorous alleys softly blew.\n Some V\u00e1nars, at their king's behest,\n Onward to bannered Lank\u00e1 pressed,\n While, startled by the strangers' tread,\n The birds and deer before them fled.\n Earth trembled at each step they took,\n And Lank\u00e1 at their shouting shook.\n Bright rose before their wondering eyes\n Trikata's * peak that kissed the skies,\n And, clothed with flowers of every hue,\n And its golden alin * thr *.\n More fair to see the * mountain's head\n \n \n A hundred leagues in length was spread.\n There R\u00e1van's town, securely placed,\n The summit of Trik\u00fata graced.\n O'er leagues of land she stretched in pride,\n A hundred long and twenty wide.\n They saw a lofty wall enfold\n The city, built of blocks of gold,\n They saw the beams of morning fall\n On dome and fane within the wall,\n Bright with the shine that mansion gives\n Where Vishnu in his glory lives.\n White-created like the Lord of Snows\n Before them R\u00e1van's palace rose.\n High on a thousand pillars raised\n With gold and precious stone it blazed,\n Guarded by giant warders, crown\n And ornament of Lank\u00e1's town.","title":"BOOK VI: Canto XXXIX.: Lank\u00e1.","type":"page"}