All 48 Uses of

immortal

in

The Ramayana

Thus to the Lord, the worlds who made, The Immortals all assembled prayed: "O Brahmá, mighty by thy grace, Ráva? who rules the giant race, Torments us in his senseless pride, And penance-loving saints beside.†
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Then Vish? u, God of Gods, the Lord Supreme by all the worlds adored, To Brahmá and the suppliants spake: "Dismiss your fear: for your dear sake In battle will I smite him dead, The cruel fiend, the Immortal's dread.†
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…Lord of all Addressed the Gods who heard his call: "For Vish? u's sake, the strong and true, Who seeks the good of all of you, Make helps, in war to lend him aid, In forms that change at will, arrayed, Of wizard skill and hero might, Outstrippers of the wind in flight, Skilled in the arts of counsel, wise, And Vish? u's peers in bold emprise; With heavenly arts and prudence fraught, By no devices to be caught; Skilled in all weapon's lore and use As they who drink the immortal juice.†
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So Aditi shone more and more, The Mother of the Gods, when she The King of the Immortals(132) bore, The thunder-wielding deity.†
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As Visvámitra, mighty sage, Was moved with this tempestuous rage, Earth rocked and reeled throughout her frame, And fear upon the Immortals came.†
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"(162) "So be it," all the Immortals cried, When Indra's speech they heard, And with acclaim they ratified The names his lips conferred.†
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Standing in heaven the Thousand-eyed, With all the Immortals, joying cried: "Lift up thine eyes, O Saint, and see The Gods and Indra nigh to thee.†
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"(167) Thus in their dread the Immortals sued: The God a dwarflike shape indued:(168) Before Virochan's son he came, Three steps of land his only claim.†
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And now because the immortal God This spot in dwarflike semblance trod, The grove has aye been loved by me For reverence of the devotee.†
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Receive unending youth, and be Immortal, O my loves, with me.†
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He, not regardless of the weal Of the three worlds, with holy zeal His daughter to the Immortals gave, Gangá whose waters cleanse and save, Who roams at pleasure, fair and free, Purging all sinners, to the sea.†
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Long time the sister Umá passed In vows austere and rigid fast, And the king gave the devotee Immortal Rudra's(180) bride to be, Matching with that unequalled Lord His Umá through the worlds adored.†
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The father lent a gracious ear And listened to their tale of fear, And kindly to the Gods replied Whom woe and death had terrified: "The wisest Vásudeva,(185) who The Immortals' foe, fierce Madhu, slew, Regards broad Earth with love and pride And guards, in Kapil's form, his bride.†
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Deep as they dug and deeper yet The immortal elephant they met, Famed Vírúpáksha(188) vast of size, Upon whose head the broad earth lies: The mighty beast who earth sustains With shaggy hills and wooded plains.†
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Once, as they say, band met with band, And, joined in awful council, planned To live, unharmed by age and time, Immortal in their youthful prime.†
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So ranged among the Immortals, he Joined in the churning of the sea.†
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Then as the waters foamed and boiled, As churning still the Immortals toiled, Of winning face and lovely frame, Forth sixty million fair ones came.†
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But the Immortals, one and all, Refused to hear the hermit's call.†
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The son of Kusik, undeterred, The pleading of the Immortals heard, And thus in haughty words expressed The changeless purpose of his breast: "Content ye, Gods: I soothly sware Trisanku to the skies to bear Clothed in his body, nor can I My promise cancel or deny.†
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Then Visvámitra woke to shame, And, fraught with anguish, memory came For quick he knew, with anger fired, That all the Immortals had conspired To lap his careless soul in ease, And mar his long austerities.†
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His head in adoration bowed, Thus spoke he to the Immortal crowd: "If I, ye Gods, have gained at last Both length of days and Bráhman caste, Grant that the high mysterious name, And holy Vedas, own my claim, And that the formula to bless The sacrifice, its lord confess.†
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This bow the mighty Rudra bore At Daksha's(245) sacrifice of yore, When carnage of the Immortals stained The rite that Daksha had ordained.†
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Then to Mahendra's hill I turned Strong in the strength that penance earned, And toiled upon his lofty head By Gods immortal visited.†
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When Gods and demons fought of old, Thy lord, with royal saints enrolled, Sped to the war with thee to bring His might to aid the Immortals' King.†
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Thus Kasyap's great ascetic son A seat among the Immortals won: In his own home, subdued, he stayed, And honour to his mother paid.†
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He left his court-yard, crowded then With elephants and steeds and men, And, peerless in immortal fame, To the great royal street he came.†
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Then falling fast in sweetest showers Came from the sky immortal flowers, And all the airy region round With heavenly drums was made to sound.†
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Then his Videhan spouse to please And his own heart of woe to ease, Like some Immortal—Indra so Might Swarga's charms to Sachí show— Drew her sweet eyes to each delight Of Chitrakú? a's lovely height: "Though reft of power and kingly sway, Though friends and home are far away, I cannot mourn my altered lot, Enamoured of this charming spot.†
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My fathers who have passed away, The royal saints, were wont to say, That life in woodland shades like this Secures a king immortal bliss.†
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Made perfect here, the saints supreme, On cars that mock the Day-God's gleam,— Their mortal bodies cast aside,— Sought heaven transformed and glorified, Here Gods to living things, who win Their favour, pure from cruel sin, Give royal rule and many a good, Immortal life and spirithood.†
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Ennobling fame still keeps alive The titles of the lovely five: Immortal honour still she claims For Kraunchí, Bhasí, Syení's names.†
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No, not the triple world allied With all the immortal Gods beside.†
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And so, I ween, the Immortals turn Cold eyes upon me now, and spurn The weakling prompt at pity's call, Devoted to the good of all.†
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The mighty Powers, the Immortal Blest Bend to a law which none contest.†
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In that far wild no hand but thine Those peerless flowers in wreaths shall twine: Immortal in their changeless pride, Ne'er fade those blooms and ne'er are dried.†
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Through many an age those trees have stood World-famous as Matanga's wood Still, Raghu's son, pursue thy way: Through shades where birds are vocal stray, Fair as the blessed wood where rove Immortal Gods, or Nandan's grove.†
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Then like the fire that burns and glows, To heaven the sainted lady rose, In all her heavenly garments dressed, Immortal wreaths on neck and breast, Bright with celestial gems she shone Most beautiful to look upon, And like the flame of lightning sent A glory through the firmament.†
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(609) Why do mine eyes no more behold Thy bright beloved chain of gold, Which, pleased with thee, the Immortals' King About thy neck vouchsafed to fling?†
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But special counselling he gave To Hanumán the wise and brave: To him on whom his soul relied, With friendly words the monarch cried: "O best of Vánars, naught can stay By land or sea thy rapid way, Who through the air thy flight canst bend, And to the Immortals' home ascend.†
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Or dost thou shine a brighter star In skies where blest immortals are, Forsaking in thy lofty scorn The race wherein thy sires were born?†
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Let warders on the rampart stand: Place at each gate a watchful band; And, terror of immortal eyes, Let mightiest Kumbhakar? a rise.†
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"In him," Vibhisha? answered, "know Visravas' son, the Immortals' foe, Fierce Kumbhakar? a, mightier far Than Gods and fiends and giants are.†
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He heard the sad Immortals sigh, And shouts of triumph long and loud Went up from all the Rákshas crowd.†
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He, fiercest of the giant race, Presuming still on Brahmá's grace; Proud tamer of the Immortals' pride, Whose power and might with Indra's vied, For blood and vengeful carnage burned, And on the foe his fury turned.†
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I will not weep: thy noble deed Has blessed thee with immortal meed Gained by each hero in the skies Who fighting for his sovereign dies.†
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Cheered by the grace the Immortals showed The chieftain on the chariot rode.†
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From thy dread spear the Immortals ran; And art thou murdered by a man?†
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He comes from where the Immortals dwell: Salute him, for he loves thee well.†
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Definition:

(immortal)
living or existing forever

or:

someone famous throughout history

or:

someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god

immortal in The Ramayana

immortal

in

The Ramayana