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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: be unfolded unto thee. And no words of thine in this poem shall contain an untruth. Do thou, therefore, compose into verses this delightful story of Rama. And as long as the mountains and the seas exist on earth, thy history of Rama- yana will spread among men. And. as long as this story of Ramayana shall retain currency, thou shall reside both in this world and in mine. Having said this, the worshipful Brahma disappeared there. And thereat the sage and his disciples marvelled greatly. And his disciples sang those verses again and again; and, momentarily experiencing pleasure, said unto him with exceeding wonder,? Those verses, composed of equal accents, and furnished with four parts, have been sung by the mighty saint, have, in virtue of frequent repetition, been associated with a world of pathos, and have attained the eminence of a sloka. And now it is the intention of that illustrious and self-centered sage to compose the entire Ramayana in this metre.'' The great ascetic Valmiki of gracious appearance and unparalleled renown has composed hundreds of verses in' melodious measure, couching the significance of the history of. Rama's line. Listen to the annals of the foremost of Raghu's race, and the destruction of the Ten-headed one composed by the ascetic, with Samasas, Sandhis, Prakntas, and Pratayas; and lucid with sweet and equally-accented words. SECTtON i U. JQ.AVtNG heard the entire history of the intelligent Rama, capable of conferring religious merit and the two other cognate objects, as well as emancipation, Valmiki again sought to get insight into it. And, seating himself facing the east on a cushion of kusa grass, and sipping wateraccording to the ordinance, he addressed himself to the contemplation of the subject through yoga'. And by virtue of his yog...