All 50 Uses of
bestow
in
The Ramayana
- But when Kaikeyí, youngest queen, With eyes of envious hate had seen The solemn pomp and regal state Prepared the prince to consecrate, She bade the hapless king bestow Two gifts he promised long ago, That Ráma to the woods should flee, And that her child the heir should be.†
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- The favour Anasúyá showed, The wondrous balsam she bestowed.†
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- The ring by Ráma's hand bestowed; The cave wherein the bear abode.†
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- They listened to the hermit's words, And all the guardians of the herds, With suppliant hands together pressed, This answer to the saint addressed: "The Angas' lord who bears the name Of Lomapád, renowned by fame, Bestowed these hamlets with their kine And all their riches, as a sign Of grace, on Rishyasring: and he Vibhá?†
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- The father, swift to feel for woe, Shall on his friend his child bestow; And he shall take her and depart To his own town with joyous heart.†
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- (103) The task was done, as laws prescribe: The monarch, glory of his tribe, Bestowed the land in liberal grants Upon the sacred ministrants†
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- Then He who every gift bestows Guarded the fiend from heavenly foes, And gave a pledge his life that kept From all things living, man except.†
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- Thus on each queen of those fair three A part the king bestowed, And with sweet hope a child to see Their yearning bosoms glowed.†
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- Such care a king his country owes As man upon himself bestows, When for his body he provides Raiment and every need besides.†
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- When glowing with celestial light The pious hermit was in sight, The king, whose mien his transport showed, The honoured gift for guests bestowed.†
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- Hail, Saint, from whom all honours flow, Worthy of all I can bestow.†
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- The mighty Sire was pleased to show His favour, and a child bestow.†
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- Nor would the Eternal Sire, although The spirit longed, a son bestow That maid in beauty's youthful pride Was given to Sunda for a bride.†
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- Invest him with the power which naught But penance gains and holy thought, Those heavenly arms on him bestow To thee entrusted long ago By great Krisásva best of kings, Son of the Lord of living things.†
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- Now will I, for I love thee so, All heavenly arms on thee bestow.†
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- And two fair clubs, O royal child, One Charmer and one Pointed styled With flame of lambent fire aglow, On thee, O Chieftain, I bestow.†
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- be this the grace Bestowed upon Ikshváku's race.†
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- Then this was, after due debate, The counsel of the wise and great, To churn with might the milky sea(202) The life-bestowing drink to free.†
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- And four-horse cars with gold made bright, With steeds most beautifully white, Whose bells make music as they go, Eight hundred, Saint, will I bestow.†
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- The king, his adoration paid, To Mahádeva answer made: "If thou hast deemed me fit to win Thy favour, O thou void of sin, On me, O mighty God, bestow The wondrous science of the bow, All mine, complete in every part, With secret spell and mystic art.†
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- He soothed his grief, his tears he dried, Then called his sons to him, and cried: "The time is come for you to show The duty and the aid bestow For which, regarding future life, A man gives children to his wife.†
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- When kings a daughter's hand bestow, 'Tis right their line and fame to show.†
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- Then came Sánkásyá's mighty lord, Sudhanvá, threatening siege and sword, And bade me swift on him bestow Siva's incomparable bow, And Sítá of the lotus eyes: But I refused each peerless prize.†
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- His daughter Sítá thus bestowed, O'er whom the sacred drops had flowed.†
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- These precious gifts the king bestowed And sped his guest upon his road.†
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- To each he gave a meet abode, And honoured all and gifts bestowed.†
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- Thy husband's lips on thee bestow Soft soothing word, an empty show: The wealth, the substance, and the power This day will be Kausalyá's dower.†
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- I sped to thee for whom I feel, But thy fond heart mistakes my zeal, Thy hand a present would bestow Because thy rival triumphs so.†
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- May Siva, Agni, Sun, and Moon Bestow on thee each choicest boon, Kuvera, Varu?†
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- The pious king, thy father, see True to his promise made to thee: That truth thy sire this day will show, And regent's power on thee bestow.†
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- These arms which breathe the sandal's scent, Which golden bracelets ornament, These hands which precious gifts bestow, Which guard the friend and smite the foe, A nobler service shall assay, And fight in Ráma's cause to-day, The robbers of thy rights to stay.†
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- To all that Fortune can bestow, Go forth, my child, my Ráma, go.†
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- Then Ráma's mother, glorious dame Bestowed, to meet the Bráhman's claim, A lordly fee for duty done: And thus again addressed her son: "Such blessings as the Gods o'erjoyed Poured forth, when Vritra(300) was destroyed, On Indra of the thousand eyes, Attend, my child, thine enterprise!†
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- Yea, such as, when the Amrit rose,(302) And Indra slew his Daitya foes, The royal Aditi bestowed On Him whose hand with slaughter glowed Of that dire brood of monstrous size, Attend, my child, thine enterprise!†
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- Her blessings thus the queen bestowed; Then round him fondly paced, And often, while her eyes o'erflowed, Her dearest son embraced.†
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- I heard a Bráhman, dear to fame, This ancient Scripture text proclaim: "The woman whom on earth below Her parents on a man bestow, And lawfully their hands unite With water and each holy rite, She in this world shall be his wife, His also in the after life."†
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- And now, dear Sítá, be not slow: Food on good mendicants bestow, And for the holy Bráhmans bring Thy treasures and each precious thing.†
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- For with thine aid, before I go, I would my gold and wealth bestow Upon the Bráhmans sage, who school Their lives by stern devotion's rule.†
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- And these who go with staff in hand, Grammarians trained, a numerous band, Who their deep study only prize, Nor think of other exercise, Who toil not, loving dainty fare, Whose praises e'en the good declare— On these be eighty cars bestowed, And each with precious treasures load.†
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- The cows on thee will I bestow As far as thou thy staff canst throw.†
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- ak wood this day I go: One blessing and one look bestow.†
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- On all the train who throng his courts, And those who share his manly sports, Great gifts of precious wealth bestow, And bid them with their master go.†
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- Returning on that blissful day, I will to thee mine offerings pay, Dear Queen, whose waters gently flow, Who canst all blessed gifts bestow.†
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- Rise up, and do thy part: bestow Comfort and help in this our woe.†
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- And, lady, on our lord bestow Such honour as to Gods we owe.†
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- Rise to the heaven where Dhundhumár And Nahush, mighty heroes, are, Where Janamejay and the blest Dilípa, Sagar, Saivya, rest: Home of all virtuous spirits, earned By fervent rites and Scripture learned: By those whose sacred fires have glowed, Whose liberal hands have fields bestowed: By givers of a thousand cows, By lovers of one faithful spouse: By those who serve their masters well, And cast away this earthly shell.†
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- á racing fleet With heavenly water clear and sweet, Thereby a tree celestial grows Which every boon on prayer bestows: To its blest shade they humbly bent, Then to Kulingá's town they went.†
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- To him the king high honour showed, And store of wealth and gifts bestowed, The choicest elephants to ride, And skins and blankets deftly dyed, A thousand strings of golden beads, And sixteen hundred mettled steeds: And boundless wealth before him piled Gave Kekaya to Kaikeyí's child.†
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- Yet Bharat's bosom hardly glowed To see the wealth the king bestowed; For he would speed that hour away, Such care upon his bosom lay: Those eager envoys urged him thence, And that sad vision's influence.†
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- Much gold he gave, and gems, and food, To all the Bráhman multitude, And goats whose hair was white and fine, And many a thousand head of kine: Slaves, men and damsels, he bestowed, And many a car and fair abode: Such gifts he gave the Bráhman race His father's obsequies to grace.†
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Definition:
to give -- typically to present as an honor or give as a gift