All 8 Uses of
respite
in
The Ramayana
- With choking sobs and voice half spent The king renewed his sad lament: With broken utterance faint and low Scarce could he speak these words of woe: "My steps to Ráma's mother guide, And place me by Kausalyá's side: There, only there my heart may know Some little respite from my woe."†
Book 2
- Take then the respite of a night And yield thee to each soft delight.†
Book 4 *
- If when that respite time is fled Thou still refuse to share my bed, My cooks shall mince thy limbs with steel And serve thee for my morning meal.†
Book 5
- No longer respite will I give, And thou this day shalt cease to live; For I, as sunlight kills the morn, Will slay thee for thy scathe and scorn.†
Book 5
- By fear and bitter woe oppressed She bathed the beauties of her breast With her hot tears' incessant flow, And found no respite from her woe.†
Book 5
- Some respite yet the fiend allows, Two months of life, to Ráma's spouse.†
Book 5
- Or if perchance his eyes he close And win brief respite from his woes, E'en then the name of Sítá slips In anguish from his murmuring lips.†
Book 5
- There was no respite then, no pause: Fast gaped and closed his hell-like jaws: Yet, prisoned in that gloomy cave, Some Vánars still their lives could save: Some through his nostrils found a way, Some through his ears resought the day.†
Book 6
Definition:
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(respite) a temporary relief from harm or discomfort