Please enable javascript to see: All 105 uses | ...The counsel of the wise and good, Who plagued the people in his hate, His father banished from the state. – banished = expelled or gotten rid of – Book 1 |

menu

vocabulary

1000+ books

All 50 Uses of

banish

in

The Ramayana

Ráma, to please Kaikeyí went Obedient forth to banishment.†
Book 1

Then came the Gods and saints who bore Their golden pitchers brimming o'er With holy streams that banish stain, And bathed Lord Indra pure again.†
Book 1

This wicked prince who aye withstood The counsel of the wise and good, Who plagued the people in his hate, His father banished from the state.†
Book 1 *

And all the world was glad, whereon The glorious water flowed and shone, For sin and stain were banished thence By the sweet river's influence.†
Book 1

O Queen, thy darling is undone When Ráma's hand has once begun Ayodhyá's realm to sway, Come, win the kingdom for thy child And drive the alien to the wild In banishment to-day."†
Book 2

Remind thy husband of his oath, Recall the boons and claim them both, That Bharat on the throne be placed With rites of consecration graced, And Ráma to the woods be sent For twice seven years of banishment.†
Book 2

For when this term of years has fled Over the banished Ráma's head, Thy royal son to vigour grown And rooted firm will stand alone.†
Book 2

As on the ground her limbs she laid Once more she cried unto the maid: "Soon must thou to the monarch say Kaikeyí's soul has past away, Or, Ráma banished as we planned, My son made king shall rule the land.†
Book 2

I heed not dainty viands now Fair wreaths of flowers to twine my brow, Soft balm or precious scent: My very life I count as naught, Nothing on earth can claim my thought But Ráma's banishment."†
Book 2

The aged king, all pure within, Saw the young queen resolved on sin, Low on the ground, his own sweet wife, To him far dearer than his life, Like some fair creeping plant uptorn, Or like a maid of heaven forlorn, A nymph of air or Goddess sent From Swarga down in banishment.†
Book 2

And can thy righteous soul endure That Ráma glorious, pious, pure, Should to the distant wilds be sent For fourteen years of banishment?†
Book 2

Now by my son, myself, I swear, No gift, no promise whatsoe'er My steadfast soul shall now content, But only Ráma's banishment."†
Book 2

O, if he would my will withstand When banished from his home and land, This were a comfort in my woe; But he will ne'er do this, I know.†
Book 2

If Bharat to thy plan consent And long for Ráma's banishment, Ne'er let his hands presume to pay The funeral honours to my clay.†
Book 2

There might be life without the sun, Yea, e'en if Indra sent no rain, But, were my Ráma banished, none Would, so I think, alive remain.†
Book 2

Unworthy of his mournful fate, The mighty king, unfortunate, Lay prostrate in unseemly guise, As, banished from the blissful skies, Yayáti, in his evil day.†
Book 2

His eyes upon her face he bent, And sought for mercy, but in vain: She claimed his darling's banishment, He swooned upon the ground again.†
Book 2

Without his word, if thou decree, Forth to the forest will I flee, And there shall fourteen years be spent Mid lonely wilds in banishment.†
Book 2

They scorned me when my son was nigh; When he is banished I must die.†
Book 2

But why should Ráma thus be sent To the wild woods in banishment?†
Book 2

Ráma by fond affection moved His brother Lakshma? thus reproved; Then with joined hands and reverent head Again to Queen Kausalyá said: "I needs must go—do thou consent— To the wild wood in banishment.†
Book 2

Shall she, while yet the holy king Is living, on the right intent,— Shall she, like some poor widowed thing, Go forth with me to banishment?†
Book 2

My banishment to-day will free Kaikeyí from her cares, that she, At last contented and elate, May Bharat's throning celebrate.†
Book 2

Her shameful words of cruel spite To stay the consecrating rite, And drive me banished from the throne,— These I ascribe to Fate alone, How could she, born of royal race, Whom nature decks with fairest grace, Speak like a dame of low degree Before the king to torture me?†
Book 2

Then if their minds are idly bent To doom thee, King, to banishment, Through twice seven years of exile they Shall in the lonely forest stay.†
Book 2

Ráma, the noblest lord of men, Heard his fond mother's speech, and then In soothing words like these replied To the sad queen who wept and sighed: "Nay, by Kaikeyí's art beguiled, When I am banished to the wild, If thou, my mother, also fly, The aged king will surely die.†
Book 2

Kausalyá's conscious soul approved, As her proud glance she bent On Ráma constant and unmoved, Resolved on banishment.†
Book 2

May the great saints and He, the Lord Who made the worlds, by worlds adored, And every God in heaven beside My banished Ráma keep and guide.†
Book 2

These words the duteous lady spake, Nor would he yet consent His faithful wife with him to take To share his banishment.†
Book 2

It were a deed unkindly done To banish e'en a worthless son: But what, when his pure life has gained The hearts of all, by love enchained?†
Book 2

I marvel, when thy crime I see, Earth yawns not quick to swallow thee; And that the Bráhman saints prepare No burning scourge thy soul to scare, With cries of shame to smite thee, bent Upon our Ráma's banishment.†
Book 2

Remember, Queen, undying shame Will through the world pursue thy name, If Ráma leave the king his sire, And, banished, to the wood retire.†
Book 2

With these alone I go, content, For fourteen years of banishment.†
Book 2

Is not one crime complete, that sent My Ráma forth to banishment?†
Book 2

As thus the son of Raghu went Forth for his dreary banishment, Chill numbing grief the town assailed, All strength grew weak, all spirit failed, Ayodhyá through her wide extent Was filled with tumult and lament: Steeds neighed and shook the bells they bore, Each elephant returned a roar.†
Book 2

His sire's behest, By Queen Kaikeyí's guile distressed, Has banished to the forest hence Him who was all the world's defence.†
Book 2

Ah, senseless King, to drive away The hope of men, their guard and stay, To banish to the distant wood Ráma the duteous, true, and good!†
Book 2

As sinks the sun into a cloud, So passed he on, and wept aloud, Within that house no more to be The dwelling of the banished three, Brave Ráma, his Vedehan bride, And Lakshma? by his brother's side: Like broad still waters, when the king Of all the birds that ply the wing Has swooped from heaven and borne away The glittering snakes that made them gay.†
Book 2

Kausalyá saw the monarch lie With drooping frame and failing eye, And for her banished son distressed With these sad words her lord addressed: "Kaikeyí, cruel, false, and vile Has cast the venom of her guile On Ráma lord of men, and she Will ravage like a snake set free; And more and more my soul alarm, Like a dire serpent bent on harm, For triumph crowns each dark intent, And Ráma to the wild is sent.†
Book 2

Far banished when their lives are young, With the fair fruit before them hung, Deprived of all their rank that suits, How will they live on grain and roots?†
Book 2

Their tender love the people drew To follow Ráma brave and true, The high-souled hero, as he went Forth from his home to banishment.†
Book 2

Shame On that malicious sinful dame, Who, keenly bent on cruel deeds, No bounds of right and virtue heeds, But with her wicked art has sent So good a prince to banishment, Wise, tender-hearted, ruling well His senses, in the woods to dwell.†
Book 2

Then deign, O Ráma, to relent, And let me share thy banishment.†
Book 2

One wish is mine, I ask no more, That, when thy banishment is o'er I in my car may bear my lord, Triumphant, to his home restored.†
Book 2

And so the dame, her heart content With proof of Ráma's banishment, Will doubt the virtuous king no more As faithless to the oath he swore.†
Book 2

When in the forest he has spent His fourteen years of banishment, With his dear brother and with me His home again my lord shall see.†
Book 2

My younger brother follows still Me banished by my father's will: Sumitrá's son, bound by a vow,— He roams the wood beside me now.†
Book 2

Mine ears have heard thy story, sent Without a sin to banishment.†
Book 2

Each mansion, as the car went by, Sent forth a loud and bitter cry, As to the window every dame, Mourning for banished Ráma, came.†
Book 2

Hard is a life with woe distressed, But difficult to win is rest, If, when her son is banished, still She lives beneath her load of ill.†
Book 2

Click For
Best Example Sentences
From Other Sources

Definition:

(banish)
to expel or get rid of
in various senses, including:
- to force someone to leave a country as punishment
- to push an idea from the mind