← The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse, Volume 2

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Each glorious sign

That stamps the future queen is mine.

We read in Josephus that Caesar was so well versed in chiromancy that when one day a soi-disant son of Herod had audience of him, he at once detected the impostor because his hand was destitute of all marks of royalty.