All 10 Uses of
quell
in
The Ramayana
- This Bráhman staff the hermit held The fury of my darts has quelled.†
Book 1quelled = stopped or suppressed
- whose arms the foeman quell, Watched all the night as sentinel, And kept his great bow strung: His hand was gloved, his arm was braced, Two well-filled quivers at his waist, With deadly arrows, hung.†
Book 2
- Or if not here those heroes dwell Whose mighty arms their foeman quell, Still other hermits here must be Like Ráma, true and good as he.†
Book 2
- What wretch attacked thee in the way, And quelled thee in victorious fray?†
Book 3 *quelled = stopped or suppressed
- A keen swift shaft he pointed well, The foeman's rage to check and quell, And hurled a hundred leagues away Deep in the ocean waves I lay.†
Book 3
- Enraged he heard the monster woo; His ready sword he swiftly drew, And the sharp steel that quelled his foes Cut through her breast and ear and nose.†
Book 3quelled = stopped or suppressed
- The kingly rank and power I held My brother's rage with ease had quelled, But still, restrained by old respect For claims of birth, the thought I checked.†
Book 4
- She hurried to the field and found Her husband prostrate on the ground, Who quelled the hostile Vánars' might, Whose bank was never turned in flight: Whose arm a massy rock could throw As Indra hurls his bolts below: Fierce as the rushing tempest, loud As thunder from a labouring cloud: Whene'er he roared his voice of fear Struck terror on the boldest ear: Now slain, as, hungry for the prey, A tiger might a lion slay: Or when, his serpent foe to seek, Supar?†
Book 4
- He quells the fury of the foe, And strikes when justice prompts the blow.†
Book 5quells = stops or suppresses
- s shafts the Vánars quelled: To meet the giant's car he ran, Raised his right arm and thus began: "If Brahmá's boon thy life has screened From Yaksha, God, Gandharva, fiend, With these contending fear no ill, But tremble at a Vánar still."†
Book 6quelled = stopped or suppressed
Definition:
suppress or stop completely