All 25 Uses of

ponderous

in

The Ramayana

Soon as the monarch's words were said, His servants to the city sped, Five thousand youths in number, all Of manly strength and stature tall, The ponderous eight-wheeled chest that held The heavenly bow, with toil propelled.†
Book 1

All they who knew the joiner's art, Or distant ground in every part; Each busied in his several trade, To work machines or ply the spade; Deft workmen skilled to frame the wheel, Or with the ponderous engine deal; Guides of the way, and craftsmen skilled, To sink the well, make bricks, and build; And those whose hands the tree could hew, And work with slips of cut bamboo, Went forward, and to guide them, they Whose eyes before had seen the way.†
Book 2

And here the host of Bharat camped, And many a courser here has stamped, And elephants with ponderous feet Have trampled through the calm retreat.†
Book 2

His ponderous bow each warrior tried, And swelled his bulk with martial pride.†
Book 3

(469) Fierce Dúsha? seized that ponderous mace Like monstrous form of serpent race, And all his savage soul aglow With fury, rushed upon the foe.†
Book 3

But the great three, the host who led, Enraged to see their chieftain dead, As though Death's toils were round them cast, Rushed upon Ráma fierce and fast, Mahákapála seized, to strike His foeman down, a ponderous pike: Sthúláksha charged with spear to fling, Pramáthi with his axe to swing.†
Book 3

Then Ráma seized his ponderous bow, And straight the heaven was all aglow With shafts whose stroke no life might bear That filled with flash and flame the air, Thick as the blinding torrents sent Down from Parjanya's(474) firmament.†
Book 3

Then loud and long the war-cry rose Of Ráma, terror of his foes, As, on the giant's death intent, A ponderous bow he strung and bent,— Lord Vish? u's own, of wondrous size,— Agastya gave the heavenly prize.†
Book 3

The silvan Gods in wild alarm Marked his huge teeth and ponderous arm, And from that Death-like presence fled, Of mountain size and towering head.†
Book 3

Prepare thy ponderous bow and bring Close to thine ear the straining string.†
Book 4

To him whose eyes with fury shone, In charge impetuous rushing on, Skilled in each warlike art and plan, Báli with hasty words began: "My ponderous hand, to fight addressed With fingers clenched and arm compressed Shall on thy death doomed brow descend And, crashing down, thy life shall end."†
Book 4

On through the ruins of the grove At Hanumán they fiercely drove, And from the ponderous bows they strained A shower of deadly arrows rained.†
Book 5

He seized a club of ponderous weight That lay before him by the gate, Rushed at the fiends that hemmed him round, And laid them lifeless on the ground.†
Book 5

Wild was the tumult, loud the din As ponderous rocks went thundering in.†
Book 6

Some in their headlong ardour scaled The rampart's height, the guard assailed, And many a ponderous fragment rent From portal, tower, and battlement.†
Book 6

To meet the royal Ráma came Wild Agniketu fierce as flame; Mitraghana, he who loved to strike His foeman and his friend alike: With Rasmiketu, known and feared Where'er his ponderous flag was reared; And Yajnakopa whose delight Was ruin of the sacred rite.†
Book 6

A while the deadly fight was stayed: Each armed him with his trusty blade Whose sheath with tinkling bells supplied, And golden net, adorned his side; And grasped his ponderous leather shield To fight till one should fall or yield.†
Book 6

They bound together many a mace And beat him on the head and face; And elephants with ponderous tread Stamped on his limbs and chest and head.†
Book 6

Like Indra with his thunder, like The God of Death in act to strike, The giant seized his ponderous spear, And charged the foe in swift career.†
Book 6

His ponderous spear the giant threw: Fierce was the cast, the aim was true; But Angad, trained in war and tried, Saw ere it came, and leapt aside.†
Book 6

Then Ráva? hurled in deadly ire A ponderous spear that flashed like fire: But Ráma's arrows checked its way, And harmless on the earth it lay, The giant seized a mightier spear, Which Death himself would shun with fear.†
Book 6

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