Example Sentences: Ramayana: The news that the monkeys had constructed a bridge across the ocean and that thousands of them had already reached Lanka flabbergasted Ravana. Mahabharata: On coming to know that the Pandavas had not only survived the Varnavarta fire but had also become allied with Drupada through marriage with Draupadi, Duryodhana was flabbergasted.
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Sugriva ordered the four search parties to return within a month, warning that anyone tardy would be executed. Mahabharata: Seeing that Arjuna had been unusually tardy in returning from Dwarka, Yudhishthira found himself gripped by extreme anxiety, all the more so when he saw many inauspicious omens around him. Bhagavad-gita: Being tardy
Example Sentences: Ramayana: By chanting recondite mantras and doing difficult austerities, Indrajita had joined the list of very few demons who had attained the power of becoming invisible while fighting. Mahabharata: Drupada was told that if he wanted a son who could kill Drona, he would need a priest with recondite knowledge of complex sacrifices.
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Although Indrajita tried to befuddle Lakshmana by creating various illusions, Lakshmana dissipated all those illusions quickly and thoroughly. Mahabharata: The various illusions in the Maya-sabha befuddled Duryodhana, who sometimes walked on dry land with his lower cloth raised and sometimes slipped on water that he mistook to be dry land. Bhagavad-gita: If
Example Sentences: Ramayana: While speeding through the air with the kidnapped Sita, Ravana got the heady feeling that he experienced after every successful mission, especially one that involved abducting an attractive woman. Mahabharata: As Duryodhana looked around in dismay at his small surviving army, the heady days before the war when he had been so
Example Sentences: Ramayana: When Sugriva was lamenting the death of Vali, Rama consoled him by giving an incisive explanation of the soul and its eternality. Mahabharata: While making his peace proposal, Krishna’s presentation was so incisive that it persuaded even some of the foremost supporters of Duryodhana such as Dushasana. Bhagavad-gita: Towards the end of
Example Sentences: Ramayana: After Rama pointed out Vali’s grievous wrongs, the monkey didn’t use any rhetoric to defend himself; he humbly accepted his mistakes and apologized to Sugriva. Mahabharata: After walking out from the Kuru assembly where Krishna was presenting his peace proposal, Duryodhana warned his supporters to guard against Krishna’s rhetoric. Bhagavad-gita: Krishna pointed
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Ravana adopted the numinous appearance of a sage to conceal his sinful desire to abduct another man’s wife. Mahabharata: When Yudhishthira was grieving because of Abhimanyu’s death, he was calmed by Vyasadeva’s numinous appearance and soothing words of wisdom. Bhagavad-gita: The venue of the Mahabharata war, Kurukshetra, had a numinous aura, which
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Although Vibhishana sensed that speaking any further to Ravana was otiose, he still decided to make one last-ditch effort. Mahabharata: Despite knowing that speaking to Duryodhana was otiose, Krishna went as a peace messenger to show the world that the Pandavas did everything possible to avoid war. Bhagavad-gita: Whatever efforts we make
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Those who execrate Rama for banishing Sita overlook the royal duty that required him to do so and the profound pain it caused him. Mahabharata: Wanting to execrate Draupadi’s character, Karna claimed that she was already a prostitute because she had five husbands. Bhagavad-gita: Krishna warned Arjuna that if he left the