Summary

Portrait of Valmiki Valmiki The Ramayana of Valmiki — Canto LII: Vas'ishtha's Feast (1870s)

Be thine the banquet to prepare.
Each dainty cute, each goodly dish,
Of six-fold taste [1] as each may wish--
All these, O cow of heavenly power,
Rain down for me in copious shower:
Viands and drink for tooth and lip,
To eat, to suck, to quaff, to sip--
Of these sufficient, and to spare,
O plenty-giving cow, prepare.'
↑ Sweet, salt, pungent, bitter, acid, and astringent.
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