All 8 Uses of
girth
in
The Ramayana
- They brought them, and prepared to fix Of Bel(97) and Khádir(98) six and six; Six, made of the Palása(99) tree, Of Fig-wood one, apart to be: Of Sleshmát(100) and of Devadár(101) One column each, the mightiest far: So thick the two, the arms of man Their ample girth would fail to span.†
Book 1
- There Mahápadma held his place, The best of all his mighty race, Like some huge hill, of monstrous girth, Upholding on his head the earth.†
Book 1
- The royal sage, his suit denied, With eloquence more earnest cried: "Tusked elephants, a goodly train, Each with a golden girth and chain, Whose goads with gold well fashioned shine— Of these be twice seven thousand thine.†
Book 1
- Who gives his elephant and yet Upon the girths his heart will set?†
Book 2 *
- Then female elephants and male, Gold-girthed, with flags that wooed the gale, Marched with their bright bells' tinkling chime Like clouds when ends the summer time: Some cars were huge and some were light, For heavy draught or rapid flight, Of costly price, of every kind, With clouds of infantry behind.†
Book 2
- The lady with her golden hue O'er the swart fiend a lustre threw, As when embroidered girths enfold An elephant with gleams of gold.†
Book 3
- an elephant, in form Of Ráma, in a maddening storm Of passion casting to the ground The girth of law(592) that clipped him round, Too wildly passionate to feel The prick of duty's guiding steel,(593) Has charged me unawares, and dead I fall beneath his murderous tread.†
Book 4
- Sublime on elephants they rode Whose gilded girths with jewels glowed.†
Book 6
Definition:
the distance around something such as a body or a tree
or:
a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place
or:
a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place