All 50 Uses of
torrent
in
The Ramayana
- Win Siva that his aid be lent To hold her in her mid descent, For earth alone will never bear Those torrents hurled from upper air; And none may hold her weight but He, The Trident wielding deity.†
Book 1torrents = overwhelming amounts
- On Siva's head descending first A rest the torrents found: Then down in all their might they burst And roared along the ground.†
Book 1 *
- The haughty challenge, undeterred The son of Dasaratha heard, And cried, while reverence for his sire Checked the full torrent of his ire: "Before this day have I been told The deed that stained thy hands of old.†
Book 1
- His favour is an empty cheat, A torrent dried by summer's heat.†
Book 2
- When the king comes still mournful lie, Speak not a word nor meet his eye, But let thy tears in torrent flow, And lie enamoured of thy woe.†
Book 2
- cried, the mighty-souled: Down her sad cheeks the torrents rolled, As to her son Kausalyá spake: "Now thou hast heard thy brother, take His counsel if thou hold it wise, And do the thing his words advise, Do not, my son, with tears I pray, My rival's wicked word obey, Leave me not here consumed with woe, Nor to the wood, an exile, go.†
Book 2torrents = overwhelming amounts
- He sought to soothe her grief, to dry The torrent from each brimming eye, And then, her firm resolve to shake, These words the pious hero spake: "O daughter of a noble line, Whose steps from virtue ne'er decline, Remain, thy duties here pursue, As my fond heart would have thee do.†
Book 2
- The lion in his mountain cave Answers the torrents as they rave, And forth his voice of terror throws: The wood, my love, is full of woes.†
Book 2torrents = overwhelming amounts
- The answer of the strong-armed chief Smote the Videhan's soul with grief, And from her eyes the torrents came bathing the bosom of the dame.†
Book 2
- Dismiss, dismiss thy needless woe, Nor let those drowning torrents flow: The Lord of Rivers in his pride Keeps to the banks that bar his tide.†
Book 2
- Unconscious there he lay: at length Regathering his sense and strength, While his full eyes their torrents shed, To wise Sumantra thus he said: "Yoke the light car, and hither lead Fleet coursers of the noblest breed, And drive this heir of lofty fate Beyond the limit of the state.†
Book 2
- Before the car, behind, they clung, And there as eagerly they hung, With torrents streaming from their eyes, Called loudly with repeated cries: "Listen, Sumantra: draw thy rein; Drive gently, and thy steeds restrain.†
Book 2
- Each to his several mansion came, And girt by children and his dame, From his sad eyes the water shed That o'er his cheek in torrents spread.†
Book 2
- With Sítá there shalt thou delight To gaze upon the woody height; There with expanding heart to look On river, table-land, and brook, And see the foaming torrent rave Impetuous from the mountain cave.†
Book 2
- (335) The fervent heat that moment ceased, The darkening clouds each hour increased And frogs and deer and peacocks all Rejoiced to see the torrents fall†
Book 2torrents = overwhelming amounts
- The torrents down its wooded side Poured, some unstained, while others dyed Gold, ashy, silver, ochre, bore The tints of every mountain ore.†
Book 2
- (370) The mountain seems with bright cascade And sweet rill bursting from the shade, Like some majestic elephant o'er Whose burning head the torrents pour†
Book 2
- a's side Shall run with torrents crimson-dyed.†
Book 2
- He spoke: the noble youths with sighs Rained down the torrents from their eyes.†
Book 2
- Soon as the monarch's fate she knew, Sharp pangs of grief smote Sítá through: Nor could she look upon her lord With eyes from which the torrents poured.†
Book 2
- Life flies as torrents downward fall Speeding away without recall, So virtue should our thoughts engage, For bliss(382) is mortals' heritage.†
Book 2
- My warrior's axe shall stretch him slain, Ere set of sun, upon the plain, Then shall thy sated lips be red With his warm blood in torrents shed.†
Book 3
- Then upon Ráma thick and fast The rain of mortal steel they cast, As labouring clouds their torrents shed Upon the mountain-monarch's(467) head.†
Book 3
- Then rose on high a fearful yell Of rovers of the night, who fell Beneath that iron torrent, sore Wounded by shafts that rent and tore.†
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 3torrents = overwhelming amounts
- From every gash his body showed The blood in foamy torrents flowed, As springing from their caverns leap Swift rivers down the mountain steep.†
Book 3
- He with resistless shafts can stay The torrent foaming on its way.†
Book 3
- The child of Janak heard him speak, And the hot tear-drops down her cheek, Increasing to a torrent, ran, As thus once more the dame began: "O Lakshma?†
Book 3
- The Maithil dame with many sighs, And torrents pouring from her eyes, The faithful Lakshma?†
Book 3torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Then by strong effort, bravely made, The torrent of his tears he stayed, Wiped his bright eyes, his grief subdued, And thus, more calm, his speech renewed: "By Báli's conquering might oppressed, Of power and kingship dispossessed, Loaded with taunts of scorn and hate I left my realm and royal state.†
Book 4
- Deep caves has he, and dark boughs shade The torrent and the wild cascade.†
Book 4
- But Tárá to her consort flew, Her loving arms around him threw, And trembling and bewildered, gave Wise counsel that might heal and save: "O dear my lord, this rage control That like a torrent floods thy soul, And cast these idle thoughts away Like faded wreath of yesterday, O tarry till the morning light, Then, if thou wilt, go forth and fight.†
Book 4
- From the wide rent in crimson flood Rushed the full stream of Báli's blood, Like torrents down a mountain's side With golden ore and copper dyed.†
Book 4torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Where copper-hued and black and white Show the huge blocks that face the height; Where gleams the shine of varied ore, Where dark clouds hang and torrents roar; Where waving woods are fair to see, And creepers climb from tree to tree; Where the gay peacock's voice is shrill, And sweet birds carol on the hill; Where odorous breath is wafted far From Jessamine and Sinduvár;(617) And opening flowers of every hue Give wondrous beauty to the view.†
Book 4
- Like students at their task appear These hills whose misty peaks are near: Black deerskin(619) garments wrought of cloud Their forms with fitting mantles shroud, Each torrent from the summit poured Supplies the place of sacred cord.†
Book 4
- They saw, and, as they gathered round, Rose from the mighty throng a sound Like torrents when they downward dash, Or thunder with the lightning's flash.†
Book 4torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Search where the torrent floods that rend The mountain to the plains descend: Search dark abysses where they rave, Search mountain slope and wood and cave Then on with rapid feet and gain The inlands of the fearful main Where, tortured by the tempest's lash, Against rude rocks the billows dash: An ocean like a sable cloud, Whose margent monstrous serpents crowd: An ocean rising with a roar To beat upon an iron shore.†
Book 4
- From his huge mouth by Angad felled, The blood in rushing torrents welled, As, like a mountain from his base Uptorn, he dropped upon his face.†
Book 4torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Angad and Tára by his side, Again rose Hanumán and tried Each mountain cavern, dark and deep, And stony pass and wooded steep, The lion's and the tiger's home, By rushing torrents white with foam.†
Book 4
- As from his wounds the torrents flowed, Like a red sun the Vánar showed.†
Book 5
- Deceitful as an autumn cloud Which, though its thunderous voice be loud, On the dry earth no torrent sends, Such is the race of faithless friends.†
Book 6
- In threatening shape, with voice of fear, The clouds like cannibals appear, And rain in fitful torrents, red With sanguinary drops, is shed.†
Book 6torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Sword, spear and shaft shall strew the plain Dyed red with torrents of the slain.†
Book 6
- calm thy fears, And stay the torrent of thy tears.†
Book 6
- Red torrents from the Vánar flowed: Then Ráma near to Ráva?†
Book 6torrents = overwhelming amounts
- If Raghu's son this day withstand The blow of mine uplifted hand, Deep in his breast my darts shall sink, And torrents of his life-blood drink.†
Book 6
- (977) Fierce was the blow, and deep and wide The rent: with crimson torrents dyed, Hanúmán, maddened by the pain, Roared like a cloud that brings the rain, And from each Rákshas throat rang out Loud clamour and exultant shout†
Book 6
- His bow the hero grasped and strained, And deadly shafts in torrents rained.†
Book 6
- Where'er the furious monster strode While down his limbs the red blood flowed Like torrents down a mountain's side, Vánars and bears and giants died.†
Book 6
- Hanúmán's chest was wellnigh crushed, And from his mouth red torrents gushed: Yet served one instant to restore His spirit: from the foe he tore His awful mace, and smote, and laid The giant in the dust dismayed.†
Book 6
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water