All 6 Uses of
ignoble
in
The Ramayana
- Canst thou, with lofty heart endowed, Think with the dull ignoble crowd?†
Book 2 *
- Fight with all strength thou callest thine, Mean scion of ignoble line, Still, like the palm-tree's fruit, this day My shafts thy head in dust shall lay.†
Book 3
- As Ocean to a bubbling spring, The lion to a fox, the king Of all the birds that ply the wing To an ignoble crow As gold to lead of little price, As to the drainings of the rice The drink they quaff in Paradise, The Amrit's heavenly flow, As sandal dust with perfume sweet Is to the mire that soils our feet, A tiger to a cat, As the white swan is to the owl, The peacock to the waterfowl, An eagle to a bat, Such is my lord compared with thee; And when with bow and arrows he, Mighty as Indra's self shall see His foeman, armed to slay, Thou, death-doomed like the fly that sips The oil that on the altar drips, Shalt cast the morsel from thy lips And lose thy half-won prey.†
Book 3
- In your brave hearts and might confide, And cast ignoble fear aside.†
Book 3
- Sugríva raised a cry That shook and rent the echoing sky, A shout so fierce and loud and dread That stately bulls in terror fled, Like dames who fly from threatened stain In some ignoble monarch's reign.†
Book 4
- He ceased: and Indrajít the pride Of Rákshas warriors thus replied: "Is this a speech our king should hear, This counsel of ignoble fear?†
Book 6
Definition:
dishonorable or lacking nobility