{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry499.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry499.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry499.htm","text":"'In doubt and fear long years have passed\n And glorious tidings come at last.\n True, true is now the ancient verse\n Which men in time of bliss rehearse:\n Once only in a hundred years\n Great joy to mortal men appears.\n But now his woes and triumph tell,\n And loss and gain as each befell.'\n He ceased: Hanum\u00e1n mighty-souled\n The tale of R\u00e1ma's wanderings told\n From that first day on which he stood\n In the drear shade of Dandak wood.\n He told how fierce Vir\u00e1dha fell;\n He told of S'arabhanga's cell\n Where R\u00e1ma saw with wondering eyes\n Indra descended from the skies.\n He told how S\u00farpanukhi came,\n Her soul aglow with amorous flame,\n And fled repulsed, with rage and tears,\n Reft of her nose and severed ears.\n He told how R\u00e1ma's might subdued\n The giants' furious multitude;\n How Khara with the troops he led\n And Tris'iras and D\u00fashan bled:\n How R\u00e1ma, tempted from his cot,\n The golden deer pursued and shot,\n And R\u00e1van came and stole away\n The Maithil queen his hapless prey,\n When, as he fought, the dame to save,\n His noble life Jat\u00e1yus gave:\n How R\u00e1ma still the the search renewed,\n The robber to his hold pursued,\n Bridging the sea from shore to shore,\n And found his queen to part no more. \u00a01\n \n \n504:1 I have abridged Hanuman's outline of R\u00e1ma's adventures, with the details of which we are already sufficiently acquainted.","title":"BOOK VI: Canto CXXVIII.: Hanum\u00e1n's Story.","type":"page"}