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The Ramayana

Each man contented sought no more, Nor longed with envy for the store By richer friends possessed.†
Book 1

contented = satisfied

Contented with their lot each caste Calm days in blissful quiet passed; And, all in fitting tasks employed, Country and town deep rest enjoyed, With these wise lords around his throne The monarch justly reigned, And making every heart his own The love of all men gained.†
Book 1

This, mighty Janak, deign to show, That they may look upon the bow, And then, contented, homeward go.†
Book 1 *

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

And Ráma, when again he turns, Whose glory like a beacon burns, In me a faithful slave shall find To serve him with contented mind.†
Book 2

So I till twice seven years are spent Will roam this wood in banishment, Contented with the lot which he, My high-souled sire, has given me.†
Book 2

Here every sense contented, still Heeding the bounds of good and ill, My settled course will I pursue, Firm in my faith and ever true.†
Book 2

"Sítá," she said, "my gift to-day Thy sweet contentment shall repay.†
Book 2

contentment = satisfaction

O rest contented with thine own, Nor let thy race be overthrown.†
Book 3

contented = satisfied

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Disease or famine ne'er oppressed His happy people, richly blest With all the joys of ample wealth, Of sweet content and perfect health.†
Book 1

For music's sevenfold notes are there, And triple measure,(57) wrought with care With melody and tone and time, And flavours(58) that enhance the rime; Heroic might has ample place, And loathing of the false and base, With anger, mirth, and terror, blent With tenderness, surprise, content.†
Book 1

On sacred lore our days are spent: Let other gifts our wants content.†
Book 1

Like Beauty's self the lady shone With all the jewels she had on, As, happy in her sweet content, Peerless amid the fair she went.†
Book 1

The hermit heard with high content That speech so wondrous eloquent, And while each hair with joy arose,(142) He thus made answer at the close: "Good is thy speech O noble King, And like thyself in everything.†
Book 1

And then the night in sweet content On Sarjú's pleasant bank they spent.†
Book 1

aká's wild wood, content.†
Book 1

Their task achieved, the princes spent That night with joy and full content.†
Book 1

Thus in the hermits' holy shade Mother and son their compact made, And then, as fame relates, content, Home to the happy skies they went.†
Book 1

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.†
Book 1

The Gods, content, Back to their heavenly mansions went.†
Book 1

At last by long-wrought penance I Won favour with the Gods on high, Who with my labours well content A four-fold host to aid me sent.†
Book 1

With bosoms filled with pleasure met Long-parted saint and anchoret, And linked in friendship's tie they spent The peaceful night in great content.†
Book 1

Of Ráma's nurse who, standing by, Gazed with a joy-expanded eye, In robes of purest white attired, The wondering damsel thus inquired: "Does Ráma's mother give away Rich largess to the crowds to-day, On some dear object fondly bent, Or blest with measureless content?†
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

Now, that my father may not break The words of promise that he spake, To the drear wood my steps are bent: Be firm, good Sítá, and content.†
Book 2

Long days and nights must he content His soul with scanty aliment, What fruit the wind from branches blows: The wood, my love, is full of woes.†
Book 2

The devotee must be content To live, severely abstinent, On what the chance of fortune shows: The wood, my love, is full of woes.†
Book 2

With Ráma will we hence, content If, where he is, our days be spent.†
Book 2

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

Now with this limit not content, In hell should be thy punishment, Who fain the Maithil bride wouldst press To clothe her limbs with hermit dress.†
Book 2

The car-borne chieftain passed the bound Of Kosala's delightful ground, Where grain and riches bless the land, And people give with liberal hand: A lovely realm unvexed by fear, Where countless shrines and stakes(323) appear: Where mango-groves and gardens grow, And streams of pleasant water flow: Where dwells content a well-fed race, And countless kine the meadows grace: Filled with the voice of praise and prayer: Each hamlet worth a monarch's care.†
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

Kaikeyí now content should be, For mistress of her wish is she.†
Book 2

And Ráma took, by toil oppressed, With Sítá and his brother, rest; And so the night, with sweet content, In Bharadvája's grove was spent.†
Book 2

As regent heir content thee still, Submissive to thy father's will.'†
Book 2

I in the woods will pass, content, For him the term of banishment; So shall I still unbroken save The promise which the hero gave.†
Book 2

So Bharat with his army spent The watches of the night content, And gladly, with the morning's light Drew near his host the anchorite.†
Book 2

When Bharadvája saw him stand With hand in reverence joined to hand, When fires of worship had been fed, He looked upon the prince and said: "O blameless son, I pray thee tell, Did the past night content thee well?†
Book 2

A while they sat, each lip compressed, Then Bharat thus his chief addressed: "My mother here was made content; To me was given the government.†
Book 2

Yea, let thy joyful steps be bent To that fair town to-day, And I as happy and content, To Da?†
Book 2

There honoured by each pious sage Who dwelt within the hermitage, Beside his darling well content That sacred night the hero spent.†
Book 2

For thou hast ever been the same Fond lover of thine own dear dame, Content with faithful heart to do Thy father's will, most just and true: Justice, and faith, and many a grace In thee have found a resting-place.†
Book 3

Here for the months, content, he stayed, There for a year his visit paid: Here for four months his home would fix, There, as it chanced, for five or six.†
Book 3

Here birds and lords of serpent race, Spirits and Gods who haunt the place, Content with scanty fare remain, As merit's meed they strive to gain.†
Book 3

With raised hands reverently meek He heard the holy hermit speak, And humbly thus addressed the sire Whose glory shone like kindled fire: "How blest am I, what thanks I owe That our great Master deigns to show His favour, that his heart can be Content with Lakshma?†
Book 3

Thus spoke the prince, who lent a grace To fortune, pride of Raghu's race; Then in that spot whose pleasant shade Gave store of fruit, content he stayed.†
Book 3

While there the high-souled hero spent His tranquil hours in sweet content, The glowing autumn passed, and then Came winter so beloved of men.†
Book 3

Rest as ye are: remain content, Nor try the battle's dire event.†
Book 3

Rest thou in her imperial bowers With thine own wives content, And in the wood let Ráma's hours With Sítá still be spent.†
Book 3 *

When thou, my friend, this aid hast lent, Go where thou wilt and live content.†
Book 3

Definitions:

(1) (content as in: content with how things are)
satisfied
(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.

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