All 6 Uses of
blight
in
The Ramayana
- When but a blighted bud was left, Which Indra's hand in seven had cleft:(213) "No fault, O Lord of Gods, is thine; The blame herein is only mine.†
Book 1blighted = extensively damaged
- This bud, O Indra, which a blight Has withered ere it saw the light— From this may seven fair spirits rise To rule the regions of the skies.†
Book 1 *
- Say, who has slighted thee, or whence Has come the cause of such offence That in the dust thou liest low, And rendest my fond heart with woe, As if some goblin of the night Had struck thee with a deadly blight, And cast foul influence on her Whose spells my loving bosom stir?†
Book 2
- To drive the guiltless to the wild, Truth's constant lover, undefiled, Would, by defiance of the right, The glory e'en of Indra blight.†
Book 2
- As Queen Kausalyá, trembling much, As blighted by a goblin's touch, Still lying prostrate, half awoke To consciousness, 'twas thus she spoke: "Bear me away, Sumantra, far, Where Ráma, Sítá, Lakshma?†
Book 2blighted = extensively damaged
- Away with grief and sad surmise That mar the noblest enterprise, And with their weak suspicion blight The sage's plan, the hero's might.†
Book 6
Definition:
causing or consisting of extensive damage