All 50 Uses of
envoy
in
The Ramayana
- Then speedy envoys hurried forth Eastward and westward, south and north, Commanded by the grateful king Tidings of Ráma's spouse to bring.†
Book 1envoys = representatives sent on a mission
- With envoys sent by distant kings, And merchants with their precious things With banners o'er her roofs that play, And weapons that a hundred slay;(68) All warlike engines framed by man, And every class of artisan.†
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- And sent his trusty envoys forth Eastward and westward, south and north.†
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- Envoy of Him whom all adore Thus to the king he spake once more: "The Gods accept thy worship: they Give thee the blessed fruit to-day.†
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- He honoured, filled with transport new, That wondrous being, fair to view, As round the envoy of the God With reverential steps he trod.†
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- Back to that saint the envoys came, Whose glory shone like burning flame, And told him in their faithful speech The answer that they bore from each: "Submissive to thy word, O Seer, The holy men are gathering here.†
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- The Envoys' Speech.†
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- The envoys thus the king addressed, And mighty joy his heart possessed.†
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- That night the envoys entertained With honour and all care remained.†
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- Thy care, Sumantra, let it be To yoke a chariot now for me, That so we part without delay: These envoys hasten me away.†
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- Soon as the king the story knew From those good envoys swift and true, To Janak's wish he gave assent, And swift to Míthilá he went.†
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- The envoy answered: "Prince, thy sire Has sent thy presence to require.†
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- An envoy of so noble sort Well suits the splendour of the court.†
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- The Envoys.†
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- Let active envoys, good at need, Thither on fleetest horses speed, To bring the hero youths away: Why waste the time in dull delay?†
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- ha, let the envoys fly!†
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- With ample stores of food supplied, Each to his home the envoys hied, Prepared, with steeds of swiftest race, To Kekaya's land(340) their way to trace.†
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- On, on their course the envoys held By urgency of task impelled.†
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- To please their master, and to guard The royal race, the lineal right, The envoys, spent with riding hard, To that fair city came by night.†
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- While thus he spoke, the envoys borne On horses faint and travel-worn Had gained the city fenced around With a deep moat's protecting bound.†
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- Loving his friends with heart and soul, The joyful prince received the whole, Due honour to the envoys paid, And thus in turn his answer made: "Of Dasaratha tidings tell: Is the old king my father well?†
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- Thus by the royal envoys pressed, Bharat again the band addressed: "I go with you: no long delay, A single hour I bid you stay."†
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- Thus Bharat, son of him who swayed Ayodhyás realm, his answer made, And then bespoke, his heart to please, His mother's sire in words like these: "I go to see my father, King, Urged by the envoys' summoning; And when thy soul desires to see Thy grandson, will return to thee."†
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- Yet Bharat's bosom hardly glowed To see the wealth the king bestowed; For he would speed that hour away, Such care upon his bosom lay: Those eager envoys urged him thence, And that sad vision's influence.†
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- Then as my friend and envoy speak, And question what the strangers seek.†
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- The envoy in his faithful breast Pondered Sugríva's high behest.†
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- The son of Raghu joyed to hear The envoy's speech, and bright of cheer He turned to Lakshma?†
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- His face I long have yearned to see, And now his envoy comes to me With sweetest words in courteous phrase Answer this mighty lord who slays His foemen, by Sugríva sent, This Vánar chief most eloquent.†
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- How may a ruler's plan succeed Who lacks such envoy good at need?†
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- What plans can fail, with wisest speech Of envoy's lips to further each?†
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- Go seek him sunk in bliss and sloth, Forgetful of his royal oath, And as mine envoy thus upbraid The monarch for his help delayed: "Vile is the wretch who will not pay The favour of an earlier day, Hope in the supplicant's breast awakes, And then his plighted promise breaks.†
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- The Envoy.†
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- His message is the charioteer That brings the eager envoy near, Urged onward by his bold intent, And by the hest of Ráma sent.†
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- Thou, Vánar King, hast done amiss: And now I see no way but this: Before his envoy humbly stand And sue for peace with suppliant hand.†
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- Already envoys have been sent To warn them of their lord's intent.†
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- He ceased: the son of Váyu(645) heard, Submissive to his sovereign's word; And sent his rapid envoys forth To east and west and south and north.†
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- Those noble envoys scoured the land To summon every Vánar band Then swiftly homeward at the head Of countless armaments they sped.†
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- Sugríva with delighted look The present of his envoys took, Then bade them go, with gracious speech Rewarding and dismissing each.†
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- "This ring," he said, "my wife will see, Nor fear an envoy sent by me.†
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- Then envoys of the Vánar race By Ráma sent will seek this place.†
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- A prince of Raghu's line was he Who gave his glory to the Sea,(792) Who now to Ráma's envoy shows High honour for the debt he owes.†
Book 5envoy = representative sent on a mission
- Here moved a priest with tonsured head, And there an eager envoy sped, Mid crowds with hair in matted twine Clothed in the skins of deer and kine,— Whose only arms, which none might blame, Were blades of grass and holy flame(806) There savage warriors roamed in bands With clubs and maces in their hands, Some dwarfish forms, some huge of size, With single ears and single eyes.†
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- His head the Vánar envoy bent In low obeisance reverent.†
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- The more to scare them with the view To size immense the Vánar grew; And straight the Rákshas warders cried Janak's daughter terrified "Whose envoy, whence, and who is he, Why has he come to talk with thee?†
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- Kings wise and noble ne'er condemn To death the envoys sent to them.†
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- Hear the great law the wise declare: "Thy foeman's envoy thou shalt spare."†
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- Yea, were the Vánar envoy slain, Where, King of giants, were the gain?†
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- by his pleading moved, The counsel of the chief approved: "Thy words are wise and true: to kill An envoy would beseem us ill.†
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- ceased: at Ráma's look The Rákshas envoys quailed and shook; Then suppliant hand to hand they pressed And thus Ikshváku's son addressed: "O Ráma, bear the truth we speak: Our monarch Ráva?†
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- Think not of bonds and capture; fear No loss of life, no peril here: For, captive, helpless and unarmed, An envoy never should be harmed.†
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Definition:
a representative sent on a mission -- often representing a government