All 18 Uses of
grievous
in
The Ramayana
- But folly wrought by that great king A plague upon the land shall bring; No rain for many a year shall fall And grievous drought shall ruin all.†
Book 1 *grievous = very serious; or very bad
- Stung to the heart with scorn and shame, With war and threats they madly came, Besieged my peaceful walls, and long To Míthilá did grievous wrong.†
Book 1
- The wicked queen her speech renewed, When rolling on the earth she viewed Ikshváku's son, Ayodhyá's king, For his dear Ráma sorrowing: "Why, by a simple promise bound, Liest thou prostrate on the ground, As though a grievous sin dismayed Thy spirit!†
Book 2
- So hast thou, by thy grievous fault, Offended him thou wouldst exalt.†
Book 2
- Whether the exile were decreed Through foolish faith or guilty greed, For promises or empire, still The king has wrought a grievous ill.†
Book 2
- I bear a grievous sorrow's weight Born of a deed which good men hate.†
Book 2
- What woe more grievous can there be, That, when from light and life I flee, I may not, ere I part, behold My virtuous Ráma, true and bold?†
Book 2
- Nay, as the sin my mother wrought Is grievous to my inmost thought, I here, my hands together laid, Will greet him in the pathless shade.†
Book 2
- His large full eyes in anguish rolled, His trembling limbs grew stiff and cold; Then fell he, like a tree uptorn, In woe too grievous to be borne.†
Book 2
- Some grievous words perchance he spoke Kaikeyí's anger to provoke, Then won the king, and comes to lay Before my feet the royal sway.†
Book 2
- s might subdued: "Dreams, omens, auguries foreshow Our coming lot of weal and woe: But thou, my Ráma, couldst not see The grievous blow which falls on thee.†
Book 3
- Yea thou art all to blame herein, And very grievous is thy sin.†
Book 3
- Reft of his love, the royal chief, Weighed down beneath his whelming grief, Desponding made his brother share His grievous burden of despair.†
Book 3
- And for the son of Raghu's sake The toil and danger undertake: For breach of faith were grievous wrong, Nor wouldst thou be unpunished long.†
Book 4
- (608) Each is a grievous fault, between The two is found the happy mean†
Book 4
- How can a brother counterweigh His grievous loss with joys of sway, And see with dull unpitying eye So brave and good a brother die?†
Book 4
- Sugríva's wrath and Ráma's hate Press on our souls with grievous weight: And we, because 'tis vain to fly, Resolve at length to fast and die.†
Book 4
- And cast away all earthly ties, Full many a care and doubt has pressed With grievous weight upon my breast.†
Book 4
Definition:
very serious; or very bad; or causing grief