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Portrait of Valmiki Valmiki The Ramayana of Valmiki — Book I… (1870s)

His pride for ever grows:
He dares the Lord of Gods to hold
Among his deadly foes.'
↑ The Maruts are the winds, deified in we religion of the Veda like other mighty Powers and phenomena of nature.↑ A Titan or fiend whose destruction has given Vishnu one of his well-known titles, Mádhava.↑ The garden of Indra.↑ One of the most ancient and popular of the numerous names of Vishnu. The word has been derived in several ways, and may mean he who moved on the (primordial) waters, or he who pervades or influences men or their thoughts.
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