Identifier: hindumythologyve00wilk (find matches)
Title: Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Wilkins, William Joseph, 1843-1902
Subjects: Mythology, Hindu Legends, Hindu
Publisher: Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & co. London, W. Thacker & co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to stray ;In all thy search for Sita, heThy ready friend and help will be. * Rama discovers his retreat, hears the story of his wrongs,promises to slay Bali the usurper, and assist Sugriva to regainhis throne; Sugriva on his part solemnly promises to aid Ramain his search and to enable him to release Sita from Ravanasbonds. Rama very soon fulfils his part of the compact. Hemarches with Sugriva and the others to Balis city ; Sugrivachallenges Bali to fight, and just as he is getting the worst of it,Rama lets fly his arrow, which gives Bali his mortal wound.Ere this chief dies, he strongly reproves Rama for slaying onewho had never harmed him, and for slaying him too in a secretand cowardly manner. He asks : What fame, from one thou hast not slain In front of battle, canst thou gain, Wliose secret hand has laid me low, When madly fighting with my foe ?* * * * I held that thou wouldst surely scornTo strike me as I fought my foe, * Grifnthss Ramayana, iii. 337. 3-^S The Inferior Deities.
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SUGRIVA. 329 And thought not of a strangers blow.But now thine evil heart is shown,A yawning well, with grass oergrown.Thou wearest virtues badge,* but guileAnd meanest sin thy soul defile. f Rama reminds Bali that Fate had ordained his death, againstwhich it was useless to contend, with which statement Baliagrees, and, withdrawing all his unkind words, asks for Ramasforgiveness. On the death of Bali, Sugriva is again installed as King ofthe Vanars, and Rama gives him four months for the enjoymentof his long lost wife and kingdom. At its expiration, as Sugrivaappeared to be so absorbed with pleasure as to forget his engage-ment to assist Rama, Lakshman reminds him of his duty in nomeasured terms. At length the order is given to collect theforces, when an army of countless numbers of monkeys, bears,&c, go forth in search of Sita, who, it is discovered, is somewherein the southern district over which Hanuman is supposed torule, who after diligent inquiry learns her whereabouts. Thea

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