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boon
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The Ramayana
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- Grant, Saint divine,(13) the boon I ask, For thee, I ween, an easy task, To whom the power is given to know If such a man breathe here below.†
Book 1boon = something that is of great benefit
- Some saints, delighted with their lays, Would promise health and length of days; Others with surest words would add Some boon to make their spirit glad.†
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- From him the lord of men at length The boon he seeks shall gain, And see four sons of boundless strength His royal line maintain.†
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- For thou well pleased in days of old Gavest the boon that makes him bold, That God nor demon e'er should kill His charmed life, for so thy will.†
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- Mad with thy boon, his impious rage Smites saint and bard and God and sage.†
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- Nine thousand circling years have fled With all their seasons o'er my head, And as a hard-won boon, O sage, These sons have come to cheer mine age.†
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- Then in his joy the lands he blessed, And gave a boon they long possessed: "Because these fertile lands retain The washings of the blot and stain," 'Twas thus Lord Indra sware, "Malaja and Karúsha's name Shall celebrate with deathless fame My malady and care.†
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- I give thee as a priceless boon The Dew, the weapon of the Moon, And add the weapon, deftly planned, That strengthens Visvakarmá's hand.†
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- The boon obtained, in wondrous wise Lord Vish?†
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- Well hast thou wrought thine awful task: Some boon in turn, O Hermit, ask.†
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- For this the holiest Sagar sighed, But mourned the boon he sought denied.†
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- Nor was she by the sages' peer, Blest with all virtues, most austere, Thy sire Dilípa, hither brought, Though with fierce prayers the boon he sought.†
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- Thou gavest roots and fruit to eat, The treasures of this pure retreat, And water for my mouth and feet; And—boon I prize above the rest— Thy presence has mine eyesight blest.†
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- what boon to gain?†
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- Thy heart's desire, O Monarch, speak: I grant the boons which mortals seek.†
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- Failing to win the boon I sought, To this condition I was brought.†
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- This, all ye Gods, I crave: do you Allow the boon for which I sue.†
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- Now if his toils assist him naught To gain the boon his soul has sought, He through the worlds will ruin send That fixt and moving things shall end, The regions now are dark with doom, No friendly ray relieves the gloom.†
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- ha, who excels In Warriors' art and mystic spells, In love of God without a peer, Confirm the boon you promise here.†
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- O thou who givest boons, attend; A gracious ear, O Monarch, lend And for our weal install, Consenting to our earnest prayer, Thy godlike Ráma Regent Heir, Who seeks the good of all.†
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- Thou for no favour then wouldst sue, The gifts reserved for season due; And he, thy high-souled lord, agreed To give the boons when thou shouldst need.†
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- Remind thy husband of his oath, Recall the boons and claim them both, That Bharat on the throne be placed With rites of consecration graced, And Ráma to the woods be sent For twice seven years of banishment.†
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- Those proffered boons at length recall, And claim them till he grants thee all.†
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- Now pledge thy word if thou incline To listen to this prayer of mine, Then I with confidence will speak, And thou shalt hear the boon I seek.†
Book 2boon = something that is of great benefit
- The queen, ambitious, overjoyed To see him by her plot decoyed, More eager still her aims to reach, Spoke her abominable speech: "A boon thou grantest, nothing loth, And swearest with repeated oath.†
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- Those offered boons, pledged with thee then, I now demand, O King of men, Of thee, O Monarch, good and just, Whose righteous soul observes each trust.†
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- The time is come to claim at last The double boon of days long-past, When Gods and demons met in fight, And thou wouldst fain my care requite.†
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- (276) The queen, triumphant in the power Won by her beauty's fatal dower, Still terrible and unsubdued, Her dire demand again renewed: "Great Monarch, 'twas thy boast till now To love the truth and keep the vow; Then wherefore would thy lips refuse The promised boon 'tis mine to choose?†
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- If thou the right would still pursue, Be constant to thy word and true: Let me thy promise fruitful see, For boons, O King, proceed from thee.†
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- But if the boon thou still deny, Before thy face, forlorn, I die.†
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- May Siva, Agni, Sun, and Moon Bestow on thee each choicest boon, Kuvera, Varu?†
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- He who to me in days gone by Vouchsafed a boon with honours high, Dares now, a king, his word regret, And caitiff-like disowns the debt.†
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- The lord of men his promise gave To grant the boon that I might crave, And now a bridge would idly throw When the dried stream has ceased to flow.†
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- Yes, Ráma, when I hear that thou Hast bound thee by thy father's vow, Then, not till then, my lips shall speak, Nor will he tell what boon I seek.†
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- To the princely youth Who loved the right and spoke the truth, Cruel, abominable came The answer of the ruthless dame: "When Gods and Titans fought of yore, Transfixed with darts and bathed in gore Two boons to me thy father gave For the dear life 'twas mine to save.†
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- Had they not long ago agreed, O Ráma, on this treacherous deed, That promised boon, so long retained, He erst had given and she had gained.†
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- May Sukra,(297) Yáma, Sun, and Moon, And He who gives each golden boon,(298) Won by mine earnest prayers, be good To thee, my son, in Da?†
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- Of old my father true and brave Two boons to Queen Kaikeyí gave.†
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- Upon his son his eyes he cast, And thus the monarch spake at last: "O Ráma, by her arts enslaved, I gave the boons Kaikeyí craved, Unfit to reign, by her misled: Be ruler in thy father's stead."†
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- And let the promised boon which thou Wast pleased to grant the queen ere now, Be hers in full.†
Book 2boon = something that is of great benefit
- A bounteous saint, as all have heard, A boon upon thy sire conferred, And all the eloquence revealed That fills the wood, the flood, the field.†
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- Ah, were he doomed but here to stray Begging his food from day to day, Or do, enslaved, Kaikeyí's will, This were a boon, a comfort still.†
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- And grant, I pray, the boon I ask: To please the king be still your task, That his fond heart, while I remain Far in the wood, may feel no pain.†
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- Sorrow for Ráma swells the tide, And Sítá's absence makes it wide: My tears its foamy flood distain, Made billowy by my sighs of pain: My cries its roar, the arms I throw About me are the fish below, Kaikeyí is the fire that feeds Beneath: my hair the tangled weeds: Its source the tears for Ráma shed: The hump-back's words its monsters dread: The boon I gave the wretch its shore, Till Ráma's banishment be o'er.†
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- Lord of the world, of mighty fame, Faithful and just, admit my claim, And grant this single boon to free My soul from fear, to one like me.†
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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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- When to his loving memory came Those noble gifts, that kingly frame, He sorrowed, by his woe distressed, As one by frenzied rage possessed: "Ah me, this surging sea of woe Has drowned us with its overflow: The source is Manthará, dire and dark, Kaikeyí is the ravening shark: And the great boons the monarch gave Lend conquering might to every wave.†
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- And now, O Hermit good and great, A boon of thee I supplicate.†
Book 2boon = something that is of great benefit
- From the three debts(384) acquittance earn, And with thy wrath the wicked burn, O'er all of us thy rule extend, And cheer with boons each faithful friend.†
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- Thus, by his friends encompassed round, He spoke, and Ráma, far renowned, To his dear brother thus replied, Whom holy rites had purified: "O thou whom Queen Kaikeyí bare The best of kings, thy words are fair, Our royal father, when of yore He wed her, to her father swore The best of kingdoms to confer, A noble dowry meet for her; Then, grateful, on the deadly day Of heavenly Gods' and demons' fray, A future boon on her bestowed To whose sweet care his life he owed.†
Book 2boon = something that is of great benefit
Definitions:
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(boon) something that is of great benefit
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, in archaic literature, a boon may refer to a favor or request. It is also a rare spelling of a last name.