All 9 Uses of
sumptuous
in
The Ramayana
- My heart is set to entertain This monarch and his mighty train With sumptuous meal and worthy fare; Be thine the banquet to prepare.†
Book 1 *
- They to the sumptuous palace hied That Janak's care had seen supplied.†
Book 1
- For never had she missed the hour Of meeting in her sumptuous bower, And never had the king of men Entered the empty room till then.†
Book 2
- And with delight his bosom swelled As onward still his course he held Through many a sumptuous court Like Indra's palace nobly made, Where peacocks revelled in the shade, And beasts of silvan sort.†
Book 2
- With grateful heart and joyful thought The Gods in worship she had sought, And, well in royal duties learned, Sat longing till her lord returned, Not all unmarked by grief and shame Within his sumptuous home he came, And hurried through the happy crowd With eye dejected, gloomy-browed.†
Book 2
- His hands he joined, his head he bent And spoke in answer reverent To the most high and radiant sage Who issued from his hermitage: "Well have I passed the night: thy feast Gave joy to every man and beast; And I, great lord, and every peer Were satisfied with sumptuous cheer, Thy banquet has delighted all From highest chief to meanest thrall, And rich attire and drink and meat Banished the thought of toil and heat.†
Book 2
- Like the calm field of winter's sky Which stars unnumbered glorify, So shone and glowed the sumptuous room With living stars that chased the gloom.†
Book 5
- With dainty cates shouldst thou be fed, And rest upon a sumptuous bed.†
Book 5
- Why slumber on the earth's cold breast, When sumptuous couches woo to rest?†
Book 6
Definition:
magnificent (impressively wonderful) -- often indicating something expensive