Reading section 118
Translator: Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
The Ramayana. Translated by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin). This historical English edition is listed by Project Gutenberg as public domain in the USA. Read the source text, search passages, and explore it with the reading assistant.
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1133 He who urges all to action; or who is yellow in colour.
Permalink1134 One who is the destroyer of all.
Permalink1135 One who is omniscient; or a poet.
Permalink1136 One who is identified with the whole world.
Permalink1137 One who is of huge form.
Permalink1138 One who pleases all by giving nourishment; or who is red in colour.
Permalink1139 One who is the cause of the whole world.
Permalink1140 One who protects the whole world.
Permalink1141 The most glorious of all that are glorious.
Permalink1142 One who is identical with the twelve months.
Permalink1143 One who gives victory over all the worlds to those who are faithfully devoted to him; or the porter of Brahmá, named Jaya.
Permalink1144 One who is identical with the blessing which can be obtained by conquering all the worlds; or with the porter of Brahmá named Jayabhadra.
Permalink1145 One who has Hanúmán as his conveyance.
Permalink1146 One who controls the senses; or is furious with those who are not his devotees.
Permalink1147 He who is free in moving the senses; or urges all beings to action.
Permalink1148 He who can be known through the Pranava (the mystical Om-kára.)
Permalink1149 One who is the knowledge of Brahmá.
Permalink1150 One who devours all things.
Permalink1151 He who is the destroyer of all pains; and of love, and hate, the causes of pain; and ignorance which is the cause of love and hate.
Permalink1152 One who is bliss; or the mover.
Permalink1153 One who destroys ignorance and its effects.
Permalink1154 The doer of all actions.
Permalink1155 One who beholds the universe; who is a witness of good and bad actions.
Permalink1156 Sacrifice of the five sensual fires.
Permalink1157 According to Ápastamba (says the commentator) “it should have been placed on the nose: this must therefore have been done in conformity with some other Sútras.”
Permalink1158 A class of eight gods.
Permalink1159 A class of eleven gods called Rudras.
Permalink1160 Named Víryaván.
Permalink1161 A class of divine devotees named Sádhyas.
Permalink1162 One who resides in the water.
Permalink1163 The third incarnation of Vishṇu, that bore the earth on his tusk.
Permalink1164 One whose armies are everywhere.
Permalink1165 One who controls the senses.
Permalink1166 He who resides in the heart, or who is full, or all-pervading.
Permalink1167 Vámana, or the Dwarf incarnation of Vishṇu.
Permalink1168 The killer of Madhu, a demon.
Permalink1169 He from whose navel, the lotus, from which Brahmá was born, springs.
Permalink1170 He who has a thousand horns. The horns are here the Sákhás of the Sáma-veda.
Permalink1171 One who has a hundred heads. The heads are here meant to devote a hundred commandments of the Vedas.
Permalink1172 Siddhas are those who have already gained the summit of their desires.
Permalink1173 Sádhyas are those that are still trying to gain the summit.
Permalink1174 A mystic syllable uttered in Mantras.
Permalink1175 A mystic syllable made of the letters which respectively denote Brahmá, Vishṇu, and Śiva.
Permalink1176 A class of divine gods.
Permalink1177 Sanskáras are those sacred writings through which the divine commands and prohibitions are known.
Permalink1178 Bali, a demon whom Vámana confined in Pátála.
Permalink1179 Vishṇu, the second of the Hindu triad.
Permalink1180 Krishṇa, (black coloured) one of the ten incarnations of Vishṇu.
Permalink1181 A. Weber, _Akademische Vorlesungen_, p. 181.
Permalink1182 Systema brahmanicum, liturgicum, mythologicum, civile, exmonumentis Indicis, etc.
Permalink1183 Not only have the races of India translated or epitomized it, but foreign nations have appropriated it wholly or in part, Persia, Java, and Japan itself.
Permalink1184 In the third century B.C.
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