All 9 Uses of
talon
in
The Ramayana
- Who, as the tale is told to us, Addressed the stricken parrot thus: "Parrot, the capturer's talons tear, While yet alone thou flutterest there, Before his mouth has closed on me:" So cried the bird, herself to free.†
Book 2 *talons = sharp hooked claws
- Thither the feathered king of yore An elephant and tortoise bore, And lighted on a bough to eat The captives of his taloned feet.†
Book 3
- rained, And with strong beak and talons bent The body of his foeman rent.†
Book 3talons = sharp hooked claws
- Then the brave vulture with the stroke Of his resistless talons broke The giant's shafts and bow whereon The fairest pearls and jewels shone.†
Book 3
- He shook his pinions to repel The storm of arrows as it fell; Then with his talons snapped in two The mighty bow which Ráva?†
Book 3
- Down to the bone the talons went; With many a wound the flesh was rent: Such blows infuriate drivers deal Their elephants with pointed steel.†
Book 3
- Fixed in his back the strong beak lay, The talons stripped the flesh away.†
Book 3
- Oft have I seen the monarch sweep With sounding pinions o'er the deep, And in his mighty talons bear Huge serpents struggling through the air.†
Book 4
- With humbled heart and broken pride Through Lanká's gate the giant hied, Crushed, like an elephant beneath A lion's spring and murderous teeth, Or like a serpent 'neath the wing And talons of the Feathered King.†
Book 6
Definition:
a sharp hooked claw -- especially on a bird of prey