Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  The monkeys’ celebration after returning successfully from their search for Sita seemed risible to some and unacceptable to others, but Sugriva inferred that they were just innocently expressing their joy. 

Mahabharata:  Kichaka’s longing for Draupadi, his composing poetic statements to praise her during his anticipated night meeting with her and his utter shock on finding that the person meeting him was not Draupadi but her formidable husband, Bhima — all these comprised one of the most risible incidents from the Mahabharata. 

Bhagavad-gita:  A fast-forwarded documentary of an average human life would show how we all race around doing hundreds of things, only to be knocked down by death and yet we hardly contemplate death’s inevitability – our plight would be risible, if it weren’t so tragic.