All 50 Uses of
valor
in
The Ramayana
- And Queen Kaikeyí bore a child Of truest valour, Bharat styled, With every princely virtue blest, One fourth of Vish?†
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- I know the hero Ráma well In whom high thoughts and valour dwell; So does Vasish?†
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- He draws, I hear, from out the breast The valour of the mightiest.†
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- All these with care the nurses laid In jars of oil; and there they stayed, Till, youthful age and strength complete, Forth speeding from each dark retreat, All peers in valour, years, and might, The sixty thousand came to light.†
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- Obedient to the high-souled lord Grasped Ansumán his bow and sword, And hurried forth the way to trace With youth and valour's eager pace.†
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- Then swift the baffled heroes fled To all the winds discomfited— Wrong-doers, with their lords and host, And all their valour's idle boast.†
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- What man with valour's choicest gift This bow can draw, or string, or lift?†
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- Next Kusik's son consenting, thus King Janak speaks, dread liege, by us: "I made a promise and decree That valour's prize my child should be.†
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- Their ruler Janak, prompt to own The peerless might my child has shown, To him would knit in holy ties His daughter, valour's lovely prize.†
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- for my house in glory grows, With Raghu's noblest sons allied, Supreme in strength and valour's pride.†
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- The royal youths, of spirit high, With whom in valor none could vie, Lived each within his palace bounds Bright as Kuvera's pleasure-grounds, With riches, troops of faithful friends, And bliss that wedded life attends: Brave princes trained in warlike skill, And duteous to their father's will.†
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- Like Vásav, when his glorious form Is circled by the Gods of storm, Girt in his hall by kings he saw His car-borne Ráma near him draw, Like him who rules the minstrel band Of heaven;(262) whose valour filled the land, Of mighty arm and stately pride Like a wild elephant in stride, As fair in face as that fair stone Dear to the moon, of moonbeams grown,(263) With noble gifts and grace that took The hearts of all, and chained each look, World-cheering as the Lord of Rain When floods relieve the parching plain.†
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- spake the chief Of those by whom the bow is bent, Mid all who speak, most eloquent: "I know what love for me thou hast, What firm devotion unsurpassed: Thy valour and thy worth I know, And glory that appals the foe.†
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- burnt with heart-felt pain, True to the right, with steadfast will, His duteous speech he spoke again: "Brother, I know thy loving mind, Thy valour and thy truth I know, But now to claims of duty blind Thou and my mother swell my woe.†
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- Blest be thy ways: may sweet success The valour of my darling bless.†
Book 2
- When Ráma, lord of valour true, Has gained the earth, his right and due, Then, free from duty's binding debt, My vanished sin shall I forget.†
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- Then glorious Bharat, true, devout, Whose genuine valour none could doubt, Gave in fit words his order out; For he would seek the shade Of the great distant wood, and there Win his dear brother with his prayer: "Sumantra, haste!†
Book 2
- Now if within thy breast may be Pity for them and love for me, If thou, O rover of the night, Have valour and with him can fight, Subdue the giants' cruel foe Who dwells where Da?†
Book 3
- A hero strong in valorous deed Is Ráma, Dasaratha's seed: And scarce of weaker might than he His brother chief who mangled me.†
Book 3
- Long, loud and deep their war-cry pealed, As on they rushed with flag and shield, Each, of his proper valour proud, Urging to fight the demon crowd.†
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- That pride for great deliverance wrought A double share of valour brought.†
Book 3
- Her lord will waste away and weep For her his valour could not keep.†
Book 3
- for might and valour famed.†
Book 3
- Shame on thy boasted valour, shame!†
Book 3
- Lord of the mighty arm, of yore A shape transcending thought I wore, And through the triple world's extent My fame for might and valour went.†
Book 3
- While you, for strength and valour dread, The earth, like lordly lions, tread, Each bearing in his hand a bow, Like Indra's own, to slay the foe.†
Book 4
- So will I work with might and skill That joy anew thy heart shall fill: The valour of my soul display, And Ráva?†
Book 4
- Sugríva joyed as Ráma spoke, And valour in his breast awoke.†
Book 4
- Think not I doubt thy valour, no; Or deem thee weaker than thy foe, Yet for a while would have thee stay Nor see thee tempt the fight to-day.†
Book 4
- Though low in dust and mire was rolled The form of Báli lofty-souled, Still life and valour, might and grace Clung to their well-loved dwelling-place.†
Book 4
- They praise thy valour, patience, ruth, Thy firmness, self-restraint, and truth: Thy hand prepared for sin's control, All virtues of a princely soul.†
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- Truth, valour, justice free from spot, The hand that gives and grudges not, The might that strikes the sinner down, These bring a prince his best renown.†
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- Such hero strength and valour, shown Upon the innocent alone, Thou hast not proved in manly strife On him who robbed thee of thy wife.†
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- A king from truth who never bends, And grace with vigour wisely blends; With valour worthy of his race, He knows the claims of time and place.†
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- I wake thy valour that has slept Amid the tears thine eyes have wept; As drops of oil in worship raise The dormant flame to sudden blaze.†
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- His valour and his strength I know: But pleasure's sway now sinks them low, With thee, my brother, for ally That strength and valour I defy.†
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- His valour and his strength I know: But pleasure's sway now sinks them low, With thee, my brother, for ally That strength and valour I defy.†
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- He is no thankless coward—no— With spirit dead to valour's glow.†
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- gently spoke and cheered Sugríva for his valour feared: "Now, chieftain, if thy will be so, Forth from Kishkindhá let us go."†
Book 4
- Thy valour and thy skill combined, Thy resolute and vigorous mind, And King Sugríva's high behest, With joyful hopes inspire my breast.†
Book 4
- Vast was the cavern dark and dread, Where not a ray of light was shed; Yet not the more their eyesight failed, Their courage sank or valour quailed.†
Book 4
- Your hearts, with strong affection fraught, His weal in every labour sought, And the true valour of your band Was blazoned wide in every land.†
Book 4
- Then with a sterner voice he cried: "O chiefs, the nation's boast and pride, Whom valour strength and power adorn, Of most illustrious lineage born, Where'er you will you force a way, And none your rapid course can stay.†
Book 4
- Ne'er can they fail in whom combine Such valour, thought, and skill as thine.†
Book 5
- In Ráma's love I rest secure, For my fond heart is true and pure, And him, my noblest lord, I deem In valour, power, and might supreme.†
Book 5
- Then Jambumáli, pride and boast For valour of the Rákshas host, Prahasta's son supremely brave, Obeyed the hest that Ráva?†
Book 5
- To Indrajít(878) the bold and brave The giant king his mandate gave: "O trained in warlike science, best In arms of all our mightiest, Whose valour in the conflict shown To Asurs and to Gods is known, The Kinkars whom I sent are slain, And Jambumálí and his train; The lords who led our giant bands Have fallen by the monkey's hands; With shattered cars the ground is spread, And Aksha lies amid the dead.†
Book 5
- They sat beneath the waving trees, And Angad spoke in words like these: "O noblest of the Vánar kind For valour power and might combined, To thee triumphant o'er the foe Our hopes, our lives and all we owe.†
Book 5
- Mark Ráma son of Raghu well; His valour, strength, and weapons tell.†
Book 6
- Tell me their heroes' names, and teach The valour, power and might of each.†
Book 6
Definition:
exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger -- especially in battle