The Ramayana-Book IV-Sec 2- Canto XLVII.: The Return.

[Anne Terri]

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THE RÁMÁYAN OF VÁLMÍKI

Translated into English Verse
BY
RALPH T. H. GRIFFITH, M. A.,
[(Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith), b. 1826 d. 1906]
PRINCIPAL OF THE BENARES COLLEGE
London: Trübner & Co.
Benares: E. J. Lazarus and Co.
[1870-1874]

RAMAYANA-
BOOK IV

CANTO XLVII.: THE RETURN.

Thus forth in quest of Sitá

The legions King Sugríva.

To many a distant town they hied

By many a lake and river's side.

As their great sovereign's order taught,

Through valleys, plains, and groves they sought.

They toiled unresting through the day:

At night upon the ground they lay

Where the tall trees, whose branches swayed

Beneath their fruit, gave pleasant shade.

Then, when a weary month was spent,

Back to Prasravan's hill they went,

And stood with faces of despair

Before their king Sugrívae.

Thus, having wandered through the east,

Great Vinata his labours ceased,

And weary of the fruitless pain

Returned to meet the king again,

Brave S'atabali to the north

Had led his Vánarons forth.

Now to Sugríva he sped

With all his host dispirited.

Sushen the western realms had sought.

And homeward now his legions brought.

All to Sugriva came, where still

He sat with Ráma on the hill.

Before their sovereign humbly bent

And thus addressed him reverent:

'On every hill our steps have been,

By wood and cave and deep ravine;

And all the wandering brooks we know

throughout the land that seaward flow,

Our feet by thy command have traced

the tangled thicket and the waste,

and dens and dingles hard to pass

for creeping plants and matted grass

Well have we searched with toil and pain,

And monstrous creatures have we slain

But Hanumánoblest mind

The Maithil lady yet will find;

For to his quarter of the sky 1b

The robber fiend was seen to fly,'

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Footnotes

380:1 Himálaya, the Hills of Snow.

380:2 Canto XI.

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Next: The Ramayana-Book IV-Sec 2- Canto XLVIII.: The Asur's Death.

The Ramayana (/rɑːˈmɑːjənə/; Sanskrit: रामायणम्, Rāmāyaṇam [rɑːˈmɑːjəɳəm]) is an ancient Indian epic poem which narrates the struggle of the divine prince Rama to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana. Along with the Mahabharata, it forms the Hindu Itihasa.
The epic, traditionally ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki, narrates the life of Rama, the legendary prince of the Kosala Kingdom. It follows his fourteen-year exile to the forest from the kingdom, by his father King Dasharatha, on request of his second wife Kaikeyi. His travels across forests in India with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana, the kidnapping of his wife by Ravana, the demon king of Lanka, resulting in a war with him, and Rama's eventual return to Ayodhya to be crowned king.
There have been many attempts to unravel the epic's historical growth and compositional layers; various recent scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text range from the 7th to 4th centuries BCE, with later stages extending up to the 3rd century CE. Wikipedia

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