All 14 Uses of
sanctification
in
The Ramayana
- He summoned straightway to his side His sixty thousand sons, and cried: "Brave sons of mine, I knew not how These demons are so mighty now: The priests began the rite so well All sanctified with prayer and spell.†
Book 1
- Then every spirit, sage, and bard, Condemned to earth by sentence hard, Pressed eagerly around the tide That Siva's touch had sanctified.†
Book 1
- When Satánanda saw the pair Of youthful princes seated there, He turned him to the holy man Who sate at ease, and thus began: "And didst thou, mighty Sage, in truth Show clearly to this royal youth My mother, glorious far and wide, Whom penance-rites have sanctified?†
Book 1
- When thus Sánkásyá's lord was slain, I sanctified, as laws ordain, My brother in his stead to reign, Thus are we brothers, Saint most high The younger he, the elder I. Now, mighty Sage, my spirit joys To give these maidens to the boys.†
Book 1
- My soul, prophetic, counsels haste: Thee, O my son, to-morrow I As Regent Heir will sanctify.†
Book 2 *
- For meet reply The lady of the large black eye Attended to the door her lord, And blessings on his head implored: "The majesty and royal state Which holy Bráhmans venerate, The consecration and the rite Which sanctifies the ruler's might, And all imperial powers should be Thine by thy father's high decree, As He, the worlds who formed and planned, The kingship gave to Indra's hand.†
Book 2
- These hands of mine shall water take To sanctify the vow I make.†
Book 2
- Then cast thine idle fears aside: With prosperous rites be sanctified.†
Book 2
- I o'er the lion prince's head The sanctifying balm will shed, And bring him, as the fire they bring Forth from the shrine, with triumphing.†
Book 2
- For ever in Ikshváku's race The eldest takes his father's place, And while he lives no son beside As lord and king is sanctified.†
Book 2
- Tall trees their hallowed branches spread, Laden with pleasant fruit, o'erhead; And gifts which holy laws require,(402) And solemn offerings burnt with fire,(403) And Veda chants on every side That home of hermits sanctified.†
Book 3
- The sacred grass was duly spread And sacrificial flame was fed, Which Scripture-learned priests supplied With oil which texts had sanctified.†
Book 4
- In cloudy gloom against the sky The sanctifying hills rose high.†
Book 4
- There the wild music rose and fell Of drum and tabor and of shell, Through chambers at each holy tide By solemn worship sanctified.†
Book 5
Definition:
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(sanctification) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy