ambrosia
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
amṛta
spoken of as
1 expressionThe ambrosia1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
And with that very joy, his power doubled, the wise one formed the resolve to fetch the ambrosia.
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Mythical food of the gods, jokingly compared to cabbage.
And henceforth I shall consider nothing comparable to it — not the Homeric lotus, no, nor even that ambrosia, whatever it may have been, which feeds the dwellers on Olympus.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The divine drink of immortality fetched by Garuḍa from Mahendra's abode.
And with that very joy, his power doubled, the wise one formed the resolve to fetch the ambrosia.
Having churned through the iron nets and broken open the finest jeweled chamber, he then fetched the ambrosia that was guarded in Mahendra's abode.