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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BIRTH OF RAMA. The scene changes to earth, where Dasaratha, King of Ayodhya, after a life spent in deeds of virtue, finds his years drawing to a close without any heir to defend his old age or succeed to his crown. A holy rishi, or saint, reveals to him that he shall obtain his desires, on performing the Aswamedha, or sacrifice of a horse, which occupies such a pre-eminent place in the Hindu religious rites. The sacrifice is accordingly performed, and with the promised result. Dasaratha's three wives become the mothers of four sons, all participating in the divine nature of Vishnu; but Rama, the eldest, is Vishnu himself.?Westminister Review, October 1848. p. 41. With costly sacrifice, with praise, and prayer, Ayodhya's king had claimed from Heaven an heir; When from the shrine, where burnt the holy flame, Scaring the priests, a glorious angel came, With arms that trembled as they scarce could hold A flood of nectar in a vase of gold: A weight too vast for even him to bear, For Vishnu's self, the first of Gods, was there. With reverent awe the Lord of Kosal's land1 Received the nectar from the angel's hand, 1 Kosala was the name of the Kingdom of which Ayodhya was the capital. As erst Lord Indra from the milky wave Took the sweet drink that troubled ocean gave.' Soon as the queens had shared that mystic bowl, Hope, sure and stedfast, filled each lady's soul. They saw, in dreams, a glorious host who kept Their watch around them, as they sweetly slept. They mounted skyward on the feathered king,2 Who spread a glory with each golden wing, And as he shot through plains of ether drew The cloudy rack to follow where he flew. Now Lakshmi,3 with her consort's mystic gem Sparkling upon her breast, for love of them Came from, the skies, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217545068
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217545068
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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