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Portrait of Valmiki Valmiki,  The Ramayana of Valmiki — Canto VI: Ráma's Promise (1870s)

“ Sutíkshna's home he sought.
↑ Hermits who live upon roots which they dig out of the earth: literally diggers, derived from the prefix vi and khan to dig.↑ Generally, divine personages of the height of a man's thumb, produced from Brahmá's hair: here, according to the commentator followed by Gorresio, hermits who when they have obtained fresh food throw away what they had laid up before.↑ Sprung from the washings of Vishnu's feet.↑ Four fires burning round them, and the sun above.↑ The tax allowed to the king by the Laws of Manu.
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