Rāmāyaṇa · Sanskrit Story
The Bridge to Laṅkā
लङ्कासेतुः
वाल्मीकि रामायण — युद्धकाण्डः, सर्ग २२–२४ (c. 500 BCE) · Beginner Sanskrit
Moral · नीतिः
श्रद्धया सर्वम् सम्भवति।
śraddhayā sarvam sambhavati.
“With faith, all things become possible”
Rāma Prays to the Ocean
रामः समुद्रतटे त्रिरात्रम् तपः अकरोत्। सः समुद्रं प्रति प्रार्थयत् — "मार्गं देहि।" समुद्रः मौनम् अवतिष्ठत्। रामः कुपितः धनुषि बाणं सन्दधे। "शोषयिष्यामि समुद्रम् इति"।
Rāma performed austerity at the seashore for three nights. He prayed to the ocean — "Give me a path." The ocean maintained silence. Rāma, angered, fitted an arrow to his bow. "I will dry up the ocean, thus (he thought)."
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