"Ramayana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in our mission school. Her mother is a favourite Temple woman high up in the profession. She dances while the other women sing, and sometimes she gets as much as three or four hundred rupees for her dancing. She is well educated, can recite the 'Ramayana' (Indian epic), and knows a little English. She spends some time in her own house, but is often away visiting other Temples. Just now she is away, and little K. is with her. . . . Humanly speaking, she will ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael
... no doubt being considerably influenced by their observance of Islam, which had now become a principal religion of India. Ramanand himself did not go so far, and remained a good Hindu, inculcating the special worship of Rama and his consort Sita. The Ramaaandis consider the Ramayana as their most sacred book, and make pilgrimages to Ajodhia and Ramnath. [100] Their sect-mark consists of two white lines down the forehead with a red one between, but they are continued on to the nose, ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume II • R. V. Russell
... Bharata |Epitomized in Talboys Wheeler's Ramayana |History of India, vols. i. and ii. The Shahnameh The Nibelungenlied Malory's ...
— The Pleasures of Life • Sir John Lubbock
... give some chronological landmarks for the epoch of the Veda dialect, pray do so. There is so much in Lassen, that one learns nothing. I fancied the age of the Mahabharata and Ramayana epoch was tolerably settled, and that thus a firm footing had been gained, as the language is that of the same people and the same religion. If you can say anything in the language-chapter about the genealogy of the mythological ideas it would be delightful ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller |
