The Rāmāyana, Volume 2. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara...

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Māruta—this term is used twice in this sloka, once for Hanumān, and next for the Wind-god. One of these is left out on the score of redundency.—T.

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Dharanidharāt.—ab.—from the holder of the Earth, the latter being supposed to rest on a mountain.—T.

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Lily.—T.

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Bhāma.—T.

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Mahendra.—T.

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To serve for a seat for Hamiman.—T.

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Understand that I was able to assume any shape at pleasure.—T.

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Literally it means servants—here it means his own personal attendants who were brave and heroic.

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A place of sacrifice or religious worship.—T.

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The wife of Indra the lord of the celestials who was confined by the king Nahusa.—T.

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An orchard teeming with various trees bearing delicious and sweet fruits.—T.

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In common use a measure of thirty-two seers or rather more than sixty-four lbs. quadrupeds.—T.