Ocean

Family: none · Role: personification · First appears: Book II, Canto 21 · Kausalyá Calmed

Life events

• Dundubhi challenges Ocean to battle, but Ocean directs him to Himálaya.(Book IV, Canto 11 · Dundubhi)
  • With: Dundubhi
  • “He reached the king of rolling waves Whose gems are piled in sunless caves, And threw his challenge to the sea; ‘Come forth, O King, and fight with me.’”

Book IV, Canto 11 · Dundubhi

• enemies with Dundubhi “He reached the king of rolling waves Whose gems are piled in sunless caves, And threw his challenge to the sea; ‘Come forth, O King, and fight with me.’”

Book VI, Canto 21 · Ocean Threatened

• enemies with Ráma “Away with mercy! at a time Like this compassion is a crime. Welcome, the battle and the foe! My bow! my arrows and my bow!”

Book VI, Canto 22 · Ocean Threatened

• enemies with Ráma (Ráma threatens the Ocean.) “With fiery flood of arrowy rain Thy channels will I dry and drain.”
• protégé: Ráma (The Ocean provides Ráma a passage across the sea.) “Still shall my care for thee provide An easy passage o’er the tide, And like a city’s paven street Shall be the road beneath thy feet.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.