A year of standing, vines around his legs.
From the original text · Trishashti-shalaka-purusha-charitra
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A year of standing, vines around his legs.
From the original text · Trishashti-shalaka-purusha-charitra
A boy who would not move until he was seen.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Valmiki Ramayana, Book II, all 119 sargas — a promise, an exile, and a kingdom that waits.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Practice is a quiet kind of teacher.
From the original text · Mahabharata
A king who lost everything to a game of dice, and a queen who never stopped looking for him.
From the original text · Mahabharata
The one who walks barefoot and does not give up.
From the original text · Devi Mahatmya (Durga Saptashati)
A student's errand for his teacher's wife turns into the longest, strangest journey.
From the original text · Mahabharata
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