Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Angada’s temerity in openly challenging any of Ravana’s generals to budge his leg was astonishing. Mahabharata: Abhimanyu’s temerity in single-handedly repelling all the Kaurava generals, evoked admiration in Drona and fury in Duryodhana.   Bhagavad-gita:  If we want to fight against the forces of illusion that bind us to material existence, we need

Example Sentences: Ramayana: Ravana’s odious mentality was seen in his scheme to gratify his lust by impersonating a renounced sage who is meant to be free from lust. Mahabharata: When Duryodhana fell in the palace of illusion and Draupadi laughed, he considered that innocent and circumstantial laughter to be an odious and unforgivable insult. Bhagavad-gita:

Example sentences: Ramayana: Rama explained to the fallen Vali that the bottom line was that he had exiled Sugriva without giving him any chance to defend himself and had cohabited with his younger brother’s wife, which was an offense akin to adultery. Mahabharata: Duryodhana dismissed warnings about Krishna’s divinity; the bottom line, he felt, was

Example sentences: Ramayana: When Narada began to speak, Ravana heard attentively because he knew that Narada was not given to moralizing. Mahabharata:  When Yudhisthira spoke moral instructions to Draupadi in the forest, she knew that he was not moralizing; he was simply helping both of them to discern the best possible response to the adversity

Example sentences: Ramayana:  Rama’s army had no time to bask in the afterglow of Lakshmana’s extraordinary victory over Indrajita; the infuriated Ravana soon charged out to avenge the death of his son. Mahabharata:  The afterglow of Yudhisthira’s Rajasuya sacrifice was shockingly short-lived; soon, the Pandavas were reduced from world-conquering emperors to paupers living in the

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Tulsi Das’ Ramcharitamanas is not so much an exegesis of the Valmiki Ramayana as a retelling in a popular vernacular language named Avadhi. Mahabharata:  The sheer size of the Mahabharata – 110,000 verses – has made it almost impossible for any scholar to write a verse by verse exegesis on this huge

Example Sentences: Ramayana: Ravana bragged about his wealth and prowess to Sita with a hauteur of a man who never expected any woman to ever say no to him. Mahabharata: Given the hauteur with which Duryodhana had treated the servants of Yudhisthira in the palace of illusions, the maya-sabha, those servants enjoyed Duryodhana’s slipping into

Example Sentences: Ramayana: When Ravana rejected Vibhishana’s advice to return Sita and publicly humiliated the king taking his crown away, Vibhishana decided that their relationship had sunk below the threshold of viability. Mahabharata: Vidura warned Dhritarashtra that his sons’ actions in attempts to disrobe Draupadi had been behaviour that was way below the threshold of

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  The tension between the king’s co-wives had existed for decades in the Ayodhya royal family as a malaise, but it suddenly exploded into malevolence that sent Rama to the forest and Dasharatha to the next world. Mahabharata:  Vidura stressed to Dhritarashtra that what afflicted him was not any bodily disease but the

Example Sentences: Ramayana:   Vishvamitra was the appellation that king Kaushika acquired after he became an exalted sage by performing severe austerities. Mahabharata:  Duryodhana craved the appellation “world emperor” that Yudhisthira had acquired after his successful Rajasuya sacrifice. Bhagavad-gita:  The appellation “bhagavan” used to refer to the speaker of the Bhagavad-gita underscores his position as