All 50 Uses of
dwell
in
The Ramayana
- Yet listen, and my tongue shall tell In whom alone these virtues dwell.†
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- While there he dwelt in greenwood shade The trembling hermits sought his aid, And bade him with his sword and bow Destroy the fiends who worked them woe: To come like Indra strong and brave, A guardian God to help and save.†
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- (50) While the Rámáyan's ancient strain Shall glorious in the earth remain, To higher spheres shalt thou arise And dwell with me above the skies."†
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- How there he dwelt and built a cot; How Bharat journeyed to the spot; His earnest supplication made; Drink-offerings to their father paid; The sandals given by Ráma's hand, As emblems of his right, to stand: How from his presence Bharat went And years in Nandigráma spent.†
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- How Sarabhanga's dwelling-place They sought; saw Indra face to face; The meeting with Agastya gained; The heavenly bow from him obtained.†
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- The twins he saw, that princely pair Sweet-voiced, who dwelt beside him there None for the task could be more fit, For skilled were they in Holy Writ; And so the great Rámáyan, fraught With lore divine, to these he taught: The lay whose verses sweet and clear Take with delight the listening ear, That tell of Sítá's noble life And Ráva?†
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- "These minstrels, blest with every sign That marks a high and princely line, In holy shades who dwell, Enshrined in Saint Válmíki's lay, A monument to live for aye, My deeds in song shall tell."†
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- And worthy of so fair a place There dwelt a just and happy race With troops of children blest.†
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- "Here dwells," 'twas thus the seer began, "Of Kasyap's(80) race, a holy man, Vibhá? dak named: to him shall spring A son, the famous Rishyasring.†
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- And there the leafy cot they found Where dwelt the devotee, And looked with eager eyes around The hermit's son to see.†
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- And why dost thou all lonely dwell In the wild wood?†
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- The seeming fruits, in taste and look, The unsuspecting hermit took, For, strange to him, their form beguiled The dweller in the lonely wild.†
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- With ready guile they told him where Their hermit dwelling lay: Then, lest the sire should find them there, Sped by wild paths away.†
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- And sought, with all who dwelt within The city walls, his grace to win.†
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- (109) Then Vish? u, fain on earth to dwell, Bade the Almighty Sire farewell, And vanished while a reverent crowd Of Gods and saints in worship bowed.†
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- The monarch called a Bráhman near And said, "Now speed away To Kasyap's son,(127) the mighty seer, And with all reverence say The holy child he holds so dear, The hermit of the noble mind, Whose equal it were hard to find, Returned, is dwelling here.†
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- The sun had reached the Crab at morn When Queen Sumitrá's babes were born, What time the moon had gone to make His nightly dwelling with the Snake.†
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- I know the hero Ráma well In whom high thoughts and valour dwell; So does Vasish? ha, so do these Engaged in long austerities.†
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- Who makes his dwelling there?†
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- The glorious saint this answer made: "Dear child of Raghu, hear Who dwells within the horrid shade That looks so dark and drear.†
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- Now dwelling in her dark abode A league away she bars the road: And we, O Ráma, hence must go Where lies the forest of the foe.†
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- She, by his awful curse possessed, And mad with rage that fills her breast, Has on this land her fury dealt Where once the saint Agastya dwelt.†
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- Thus spoke the prince of boundless might, And thus replied the anchorite: "Chief of the mighty arm, of yore Lord Vish? u whom the Gods adore, For holy thought and rites austere Of penance made his dwelling here.†
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- Soon as they saw the holy man, With one accord together ran The dwellers in the sacred shade, And to the saint their reverence paid, And offered water for his feet, The gift of honour and a seat; And next with hospitable care They entertained the princely pair.†
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- Amúrtarajas chose to dwell In Dharmára? ya's citadel, And Vasu bade his city fair The name of Girivraja bear.†
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- Now on Himálaya's side I dwell Because I love my sister well.†
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- Then loud the horrid clamour rose Of monsters dying neath their blows, Giant and demon, fiend and snake, That in earth's core their dwelling make.†
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- Then on one wish, one thought intent, Planning the heavenly stream's descent, Leaving his ministers the care And burden of his state to bear, Dwelling in far Gokarna(194) he Engaged in long austerity.†
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- This is the spot—so men have told— Where Lord Mahendra(215) dwelt of old, This is the blessed region where His votaress mother claimed his care.†
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- Alike in stature, port, and mien, The same fair form in each is seen," He spoke; and at the monarch's call The best of hermits told him all, How in the grove with him they dwelt, And slaughter to the demons dealt.†
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- I long to know What hermit dwelt here long ago.†
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- This was the grove—most lovely then— Of Gautam, O thou best of men, Like heaven itself, most honoured by The Gods who dwell above the sky.†
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- "(219) Thus spoke the monarch, lofty-souled, The saint, of heart unfathomed, told How, sons of Dasaratha, they Accompanied his homeward way, How in the hermitage they dwelt, And slaughter to the demons dealt: Their journey till the spot they neared Whence fair Visálá's towers appeared: Ahalyá seen and freed from taint; Their meeting with her lord the saint; And how they thither came, to know The virtue of the famous bow.†
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- Sons of my guide, to each of you With lowly reverence here I sue; To each, intent on penance-vow, O Bráhmans, low my head I bow, And pray you each with ready heart In my great rite to bear a part, That in the body I may rise And dwell with Gods within the skies.†
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- Then Visvámitra, when the Blest Had sought their homes of heavenly rest, Thus, mighty Prince, his counsel laid Before the dwellers of the shade: "The southern land where now we are Offers this check our rites to bar:(240) To other regions let us speed, And ply our tasks from trouble freed.†
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- The saint, in glory's light arrayed, In Pushkar's wood his dwelling made, And living there on roots and fruit Did penance stern and resolute.†
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- You, like Vasish? ha's evil brood, Shall make the flesh of dogs your food A thousand years in many a birth, And punished thus shall dwell on earth."†
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- The fairest of the fair Made for awhile her dwelling there, While day by day the wild delight Stayed vow austere and fervent rite There as the winsome charmer wove Her spells around him in the grove, And bound him in a golden chain, Five sweet years fled, and five again.†
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- Visvámitra's Triumph Then from Himálaya's heights of snow, The glorious saint prepared to go, And dwelling in the distant east His penance and his toil increased.†
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- To Vámadeva quick he cried, Vasish? ha, and his lords beside: "Lakshma? and he, my princely boy Who fills Kausalyá's soul with joy, By Visvámitra guarded well Among the good Videhans dwell.†
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- He bade me tend my brother well, Then to the forest went to dwell.†
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- Then all the dwellers in the sky, Minstrel, and saint, and God drew nigh, And prayed them that the strife might cease, And the great rivals met in peace.†
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- Lord Yudhájit with joyful pride Went forth, the brothers by his side, And reached the city where he dwelt: And mighty joy his father felt.†
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- So he her lord and second life Dwelt in the bosom of his wife, In double form, that, e'en apart, Each heart could commune free with heart.†
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- The lords of men had hastened forth From east and west and south and north, Aryan and stranger, those who dwell In the wild wood and on the fell, And as the Gods to Indra, they Showed honour to the king that day.†
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- Then Ráma paid the reverence due, Mounted the chariot, and withdrew, And to his splendid dwelling drove While crowds to show him honour strove.†
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- To-day the moon, in order due, Entered the sign Punarvasu,(267) To-morrow, as the wise foretell, In Pushya's favouring stars will dwell: Then on the throne shalt thou be placed.†
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- With crafty soul thy child he sends To dwell among thy distant friends, And, every rival far from sight, To Ráma gives the power and might.†
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- Come, Ráma from his home expel An exile in the woods to dwell.†
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- The royal lady wounded through The bosom with the darts that flew Launched from the hump-back's tongue Pressed both her hands upon her side, And o'er and o'er again she cried With wildering fury stung: "Yes, it shall be thy task to tell That I have hurried hence to dwell In Yáma's realms of woe, Or happy Bharat shall be king, And doomed to years of wandering Kausalyá's son shall go.†
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Definitions:
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(dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.) make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)
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(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period