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Hich Râmas goes through is compared to a group of clouds.[196] The name of wanderer by night (raganîcaras),…

Date of account: English edition published 1872
Source: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)
Reference: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2) · selected passage 22
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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hich Râmas goes through is compared to a group of clouds.[196] The name of wanderer by night (raganîcaras), afterwards given frequently in the Râmâyanam, to the monster whom Râmas combats, implies, of course, that the battle is fought by night

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hich Râmas goes through is compared to a group of clouds.[196] The name of wanderer by night (_raganîcaras_), afterwards given frequently in the _Râmâyanam_, to the monster whom Râmas combats, implies, of course, that the battle is fought by night. The fact that, as we read, the witch _Çûrpanakhâ_ comes in winter to seduce Râmas whilst he is in the forest,[197] and the monster _Kumbhakarnas_ awakens after six months' sleep, like a rainy cloud which increases towards the end of summer (_tapânte_),[198] shows us that the epic poem of Râmas embraces, besides the nightly battle of the sun over darkness, also the great annual battle of the sun in winter to recover and rejoin the spring. Anyhow, it is always a battle of the sun against the monster of darkness.

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