All 50 Uses of
heed
in
The Ramayana
- The hermit thus with watchful heed Received the poem's pregnant seed, And looked with eager thought around If fuller knowledge might be found.†
Book 1heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- And all the ministers took heed To see his bidding done.†
Book 1
- For with most careful heed they saw That all was done by Veda law.†
Book 1
- Let not the hours, I warn thee, fly, Fixt for the rite, unheeded by; Good luck have thou, O royal Chief, Nor give thy heart to needless grief.†
Book 1unheeded = ignoredstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unheeded means not and reverses the meaning of heeded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Moved by his words, the saintly man Visálá's ancient tale began: "List, Ráma, list, with closest heed The tale of Indra's wondrous deed, And mark me as I truly tell What here in ancient days befell.†
Book 1heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Such heedless faults will kings destroy Who fail to guard what they enjoy.†
Book 1 *heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Ten years have past, each day and night Unheeded in delusive flight.†
Book 1unheeded = ignoredstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unheeded means not and reverses the meaning of heeded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- King Janak, with attentive heed, Consulted first his daughters' need, And ordered all to speed the rite; Then rested also for the night.†
Book 1heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Then burst the people's rapture out In loud acclaim and joyful shout; And when the tumult slowly ceased The king addressed the holy priest: "Give order, Saint, with watchful heed For what the coming rite will need.†
Book 2
- Now therefore, Ráma, hear my rede, And mark my words with duteous heed: This day the peoples' general voice, Elects thee king of love and choice, And I, consenting to the prayer, Will make thee, darling, Regent Heir.†
Book 2
- Ah, heedless Queen, too blind to know What floods of sin above thee flow!†
Book 2heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- for thou, unhappy dame, Deluded by a husband's name, With more than mother's love hast pressed A serpent to thy heedless breast, And cherished him who works thee woe, No husband but a deadly foe.†
Book 2
- I heed not dainty viands now Fair wreaths of flowers to twine my brow, Soft balm or precious scent: My very life I count as naught, Nothing on earth can claim my thought But Ráma's banishment.†
Book 2heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Mine hours of ease I spent with thee, Nor deemed my love my death would be, While like a heedless child I played, On a black snake my hand I laid.†
Book 2heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- The twice-born chiefs, with zealous heed, Made ready what the rite would need.†
Book 2heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Forthwith the prince with duteous heed Called in the messenger with speed, For 'twas his sire's command, he knew, That sent him for the interview.†
Book 2
- No more of dainty fare we need, And but one cherished object heed, That we may see our prince today Invested with imperial sway.†
Book 2
- For there his reason well-nigh fled, Sighing, with soul disquieted, To torturing pangs a prey, Dismayed, despairing, and distraught, In a fierce whirl of wildering thought The hapless monarch lay, Like Ocean wave-engarlanded Storm-driven from his tranquil bed, The Sun-God in eclipse, Or like a holy seer, heart-stirred With anguish, when a lying word Has passed his heedless lips.†
Book 2heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Declare it, O dear Queen, and win His pardon for my heedless sin.†
Book 2
- But man to duty first should turn Whene'er the three are not combined: For those who heed but gain we spurn, And those to pleasure all resigned.†
Book 2heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Soon as my trenchant steel is bare, Flashing its lightning through the air, I heed no foe, nor stand aghast Though Indra's self the levin cast.†
Book 2
- My son, the will of mighty Fate At every time must dominate, If now it drives thee hence to stray Heedless of me who bid thee stay.†
Book 2heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Thou, only thou, art in my mind: I heed not all beside.†
Book 2heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Our way will lie through forest ground Where countless birds and beasts are found, I heed not homes of Gods on high, I heed not life that cannot die, Nor would I wish, with thee away, O'er the three worlds to stretch my sway.†
Book 2
- Our way will lie through forest ground Where countless birds and beasts are found, I heed not homes of Gods on high, I heed not life that cannot die, Nor would I wish, with thee away, O'er the three worlds to stretch my sway.†
Book 2
- The power imperial for her son Has Asvapati's daughter(306) won, And she, proud queen, will little heed Her miserable rivals' need.†
Book 2
- I in the woods my life will lead: The lust of rule no more I heed.†
Book 2
- Thy spoken word I still will heed, Obeying all thy lips decreed: And fourteen years in woods will dwell With those who live in glade and dell.†
Book 2
- Thus Dasaratha's son addressed That crowd of matrons sore distressed: "If from these lips, while here I dwelt, One heedless taunt you e'er have felt, Forgive me, pray.†
Book 2heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Sumantra from the chariot freed With ready hand each weary steed; He groomed them with the utmost heed, Their limbs he bathed and dried, Then led them forth to drink and feed At pleasure in the grassy mead That fringed the river side.†
Book 2heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- If Queen Kaikeyí's treacherous sin, Our lord expelled, the kingdom win, We heed not sons or golden store, Our life itself we prize no more.†
Book 2
- Shame On that malicious sinful dame, Who, keenly bent on cruel deeds, No bounds of right and virtue heeds, But with her wicked art has sent So good a prince to banishment, Wise, tender-hearted, ruling well His senses, in the woods to dwell.†
Book 2heeds = pays close attention to; or does what is suggested
- A heedless child we call the man Whose feeble judgment fails to scan The weight of what his hands may do, Its lightness, fault, and merit too.†
Book 2heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- The son of Raghu to his queen Thus far described the unequalled scene, And, as the hermit's death he rued, The mournful story thus renewed: "The deed my heedless hand had wrought Perplexed me with remorseful thought, And all alone I pondered still How kindly deed might salve the ill.†
Book 2
- For what remains, O, let me win Thy pardon for my heedless sin.†
Book 2
- Thou livest, for thy heedless hand Has wrought a deed thou hast not planned, Else thou and all of Raghu's line Had perished by this act of thine.†
Book 2
- Because the boy I loved so well Slain by thy heedless arrow fell, My curse upon thy soul shall press With bitter woe and heaviness.†
Book 2
- With lovely change for ever new The seasons' sweet return they view, Nor think with heedless hearts the while That lives decay as seasons smile.†
Book 2
- Here every sense contented, still Heeding the bounds of good and ill, My settled course will I pursue, Firm in my faith and ever true.†
Book 2heeding = paying close attention to; or doing what is suggested
- Then Ráma spoke: "O Bharat, heed Thy virtuous friends, and mark their rede.†
Book 2heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Then Bharat shook in every limb As suppliant thus he spake to him: "The duty of a king respect, Held by our race in high respect: And O, thy gracious ear incline To heed my mother's prayer and mine.†
Book 2
- through his want of heed Offended with unseemly deed?†
Book 2
- He took the brand: with utmost heed He kept it for the warrior's need: To keep his trust he fondly strove When roaming in the neighbouring grove: Whene'er for roots and fruit he strayed Still by his side he bore the blade: Still on his sacred charge intent, He took his treasure when he went.†
Book 3
- With heedless soul he spurned the right, And found in cruel deeds delight.†
Book 3heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Night-rover, when a villain's deeds Distress the world he little heeds, Each hand is armed his life to take, And crush him like a deadly snake.†
Book 3heeds = pays close attention to; or does what is suggested
- Thus with wild fury unrepressed Raghu's brave son the fiend addressed; And Khara, as his wrath grew high, Thus thundered forth his fierce reply: "By senseless pride to madness wrought, By danger girt thou fearest naught, Nor heedest, numbered with the dead, What thou shouldst say and leave unsaid.†
Book 3heedest = pay close attention to; or do what is suggestedstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou heedest" in older English, today we say "You heed."
- ravener of man, With bitter words she thus began: "Wilt thou absorbed in pleasure, still Pursue unchecked thy selfish will: Nor turn thy heedless eyes to see The coming fate which threatens thee?†
Book 3heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Thy foes are calm and strong and wise, Fiends, Gods, and warriors of the skies,— How, heedless, wicked, weak, and vain, Wilt thou thy kingly state maintain?†
Book 3
- Thou, lord of giants, void of sense, Slave of each changing influence, Heedless of all that makes a king, Destruction on thy head wilt bring.†
Book 3
- Enslaved and dull, of blinded sight, Intoxicate with vain delight, Thou closest still thy heedless eyes To dangers in thy realm that rise.†
Book 3
Definition:
pay close attention to; or to do what is suggested -- especially with regard to a warning or other advice