The Iliad of the East a Selection of Legends Drawn From Valmikis Sanskrit Poem
The Iliad of the East a Selection of Legends Drawn From Valmikis Sanskrit Poem
Valmiki Ramayana
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"If thou hast any love for me, I-ord and Father, " he cried, " grant me next to combat this Hero ! " Then Ravana, smiling to see his ardour, motioned the youth to be gone. Seizing his bow, the gallant Aksha sprang into his golden chariot, and lashed * Tbis comparison is translated. AKSHA, THE BOY WARRIOR. 233 his milk-white coursers on, amid the bodies of the slaughtered Rakshasas. When the noble Son of the ^Vind saw this new opponent, his heart was filled with compassion. "This Hero is still b...ut a Child, " he thought ; "it were against my will to slay him in an hour when life seems filled with beauty ! " Accordingly, wishing to spare Aksha, the gallant Orang-outang sprang to the ground, and struck the chariot a blow with his clenched fist, so that it was overturned, and the snow-white horses lay dead amongst its fragments. But, nothing daunted, the gallant youth sprang up from amid the ruins, and, by virtue of his great self- macerations, bounded up through the air to meet Hanuman. " Well done, O valiant Simian !
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