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| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1061-1147 | high | The narrator wakes near Anchises' tree-screened house, climbs to the roof, hears battle, and compares the spreading ruin to field-fire and a mountain torrent; Deiphobus' house crashes down, Ucalegon burns, and the bay is lit by fire. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1149-1237 | medium | Greek forces gather; the disguised Trojans are recognized by shields, false weapons, and speech. Coroebus dies at the altar of the armed goddess; Rhipeus, Hypanis, Dymas, and Panthus fall; the narrator withdraws with Iphitus and Pelias toward Priam's house. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1318-1408 | low | Aeneas' mother tells him to care for Anchises, Creüsa, and Ascanius, says gods in anger overturn Troy, removes the cloud from his sight, and names Neptune, Juno, Pallas, and the lord aiding the Greeks. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1410-1496 | medium | As fire advances, Aeneas plans the escape: Anchises is to be carried, Iülus and Creüsa will accompany him, the household will gather at Ceres’ mound near an aged cypress, Anchises will carry the sacred objects, and Aeneas must wash in a living stream before touching them. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 980-1059 | medium | Hector appears in Aeneas’s sleep, wounded and grieving, tells him to flee Troy’s flames, entrusts him with Troy’s holy things and household gods, and brings out Vesta’s chaplets and everlasting fire. | record |
| Greek | Aesop's Fables; a new translation | THE ASS AND THE LAP-DOG / THE FIR-TREE AND THE BRAMBLE / THE FROGS' COMPLAINT AGAINST THE SUN / THE DOG, THE COCK, AND THE FOX; lines 1484-1507 | medium | The Sun is about to take a wife. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 5145-5241 | high | Loka-byūhā angels, weeping and dressed in red garments, announce a new dispensation after one hundred thousand years, the drying of the ocean, the burning of the earth and Sineru, the passing away of the world, and moral duties of mercy and family honor. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | HERBERT A. GILES / CHAPTER I--TRANSCENDENTAL BLISS 1 / INDEX 455 / ERRATA AND ADDENDA 466; lines 317-431 | low | Two centuries before the Christian era, an attempt was made to destroy most Chinese literature so history could begin anew from the First Emperor; the Burning of the Books gave later Han scholars opportunity for forgery. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH; lines 2411-2509 | high | Balor orders his eyelid lifted; Lugh throws a red spear through Balor's eye, the fallen eye kills three times nine Fomor, Ireland would have burned in a flash if it were not put out, and Lugh beheads Balor. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG / CHAPTER II. THE DAGDA / CHAPTER III. ANGUS OG / CHAPTER IV. THE MORRIGU; lines 3251-3311 | low | Mac Cecht burns the three hearts on the Plain of Ashes and throws the ashes into a stream; the water stops, boils up, and every creature in it dies. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | THE COURTSHIP OF ETAIN / INTRODUCTION / PROLOGUE IN FAIRYLAND / FROM THE LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI; lines 1134-1161 | low | A different tale says Manannan aided in the slaying of Fuamnach and Mider in Bri Leith; the quoted verse says Bri Leith was burned by Manannan. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3012-3099 | high | Zeus unleashes lightning, thunder, and thunderbolts; flame, burning, seething waters, vapor, glare, heat, earthquake, duststorm, and battle-noise fill the cosmic conflict. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3198-3291 | medium | Typhoeus would have ruled mortals and immortals if Zeus had not perceived it; Zeus thunders, and earth, heaven, sea, Ocean streams, nether regions, Olympus, Hades, and the Titans tremble amid heat, lightning, fire, and strife. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE NIGHT-ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES. / BOOK XI. / ARGUMENT / THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON.; lines 10926-11027 | medium | Dust, horses, chariots, and slaughter fill the plain; Agamemnon's rage is compared to fire consuming a forest, and empty cars roll across the field. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS. / BOOK XV. / ARGUMENT. / THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX.; lines 15059-15181 | medium | Jove raises Hector to the intended work, gives him more than mortal fury and splendour, while the poem notes his fate is near but deferred for the honors of a day. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XX. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES.; lines 19044-19173 | low | Athena replies that Poseidon may decide whether to spare Aeneas; she and Hera have sworn destruction to the Trojan kind until the city is ruined. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XX. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES.; lines 19315-19414 | medium | Achilles' destruction is compared to flame filling a winding valley, crackling through shrubs, climbing a mountain, firing high woods, and blazing to the sky. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES. / BOOK XXI. / ARGUMENT.; lines 19819-19969 | medium | Juno commands Vulcan to rise against the flood, assemble fires and winds, burn the red torrent with corpses and arms, drink the flood, devour trees, and scorch the banks. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXII. / ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR.; lines 20781-20906 | medium | Hector's father answers with groans and tears, and the whole city shares one face of woe. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 3913-4058 | medium | The armies sweep forward like a deluge and a flood of fire; earth groans beneath them as in the simile of Jove hurling lightning and striking Typhon beneath a burning load. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH / THE OGRE OF RASHOMON / HOW AN OLD MAN LOST HIS WEN; lines 7364-7483 | high | Kokai's fall against the rocks bursts the mountain, releases fire from the earth, and breaks a pillar upholding the Heavens so that one corner of the sky drops to the earth. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH / THE OGRE OF RASHOMON / HOW AN OLD MAN LOST HIS WEN; lines 7485-7562 | medium | The ambassadors ask why the Sun and Moon secluded themselves; the Sun and Moon answer that Mount Shu burst forth with fire and damaged the roads of Heaven, preventing their usual journeys. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 23564-23746 | medium | Ilmatar says the Fire-child is hard to find, has done mischief, and fell from ether and cloud-rims through the heavens to Palwoinen’s uncovered rooms. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 23935-24126 | medium | Wainamoinen considers how to bring the fire to fireless Wainola, snatches it from the Sun-child, and the fire burns him, Ilmarinen, and broad stretches of northern land. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 386-465 | low | Copies of the new text were sent to chief military stations, and "all previously existing copies were committed to the flames." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3893-4118 | low | The addressed are told to burn in punishment; patience or impatience will be the same, for they will receive the reward of their doings. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19244-19339 | medium | The note identifies the people as inhabitants of Nineveh, says Jonas was sent to reclaim them, describes a black cloud shooting fire and smoke over the city, and says the people repented in sackcloth with families and cattle, after which God forgave them and the storm passed over. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25522-25578 | medium | Unbelievers have garments of fire, boiling water poured on their heads, bowels and skins dissolved, iron maces, and are dragged back into hell when trying to escape. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE MOON; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34954-35047 | medium | A flame without smoke and a smoke without flame will be sent down, and the addressed beings will not be able to defend themselves. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXI. / ENTITLED, THE FOLDING UP; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37942-37996 | medium | Souls are joined again to bodies; the buried-alive girl is asked why she was killed; books are opened; heaven is removed; hell burns; paradise is brought near; "every soul shall know what it hath wrought." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39526-39627 | medium | Abraham is indexed as patriarch; former idolater; demolisher of Chaldean idols; preacher; disputant with Nimrod; survivor of Nimrod's fire; seeker of conviction about resurrection; sacrificer of birds and of his son; host of angels; recipient of Isaac's promise; friend of God; builder and cleanser of the Caaba with Ismael. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4222-4265 | high | A wind removes the souls of those with faith, and the first trumpet blast, called the blast of consternation, terrifies all creatures in heaven and earth except those God exempts. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN; lines 4312-4396 | medium | The herdsman burns “all the dead trees and bushes in the plain” with his breath down to the ground. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 12475-12578 | medium | The narrator says Noah could overturn the world only with God's aid; hidden herds of lions were within him, and he was fire while the world was straw. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 8535-8646 | medium | Flesh is called hell and a fiery dragon; oceans cannot extinguish it, it devours its food and a universe, and God stamps on hell so it ceases to burn. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 8753-8855 | medium | A human moved by the Lord can cleave natural features; the power informing the soul can cleave the moon; the soul can soar beyond the stars; disclosure of heaven's mystery would burn the world like fire burns wood. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1313-1408 | medium | Jupiter considers thunder but fears cosmic fire, recalls a fated future burning of sea, earth, and heaven, lays aside Cyclops-forged weapons, chooses flood, confines clearing winds in Aeolus’s caverns, sends the South Wind, and Iris carries water to the clouds. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1410-1460 | medium | The note reports Sibylline, Senecan, and Stoic teachings that the world or universe would perish by fire or conflagration. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS / INTRODUCTION. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 250-281 | high | Epaphus challenges Phaëton's claim that Phœbus is his father; Phaëton asks to guide the Sun's chariot for a day; the earth burns, Æthiopians are darkened by heat, Jupiter strikes him, and his sisters and Cyenus are transformed while lamenting. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2602-2612 | low | Footnote 117 glosses the Sun’s rays as the heat or fire of the sun and describes the sun as a luminous heavenly body. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND.; lines 2615-2682 | high | The fable summary says Phaethon, insulted by Epaphus, seeks proof from Apollo; Apollo swears by Styx to grant any request; Phaethon asks to guide the chariot, fails, and endangers the world with consumption. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND.; lines 2760-2842 | medium | The father consecrates the son's face against flame, places rays on his hair, and instructs him to control the horses, keep to the middle track, and avoid burning heaven or earth by driving too high or too low. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND.; lines 2844-2893 | high | The Moon observes her brother’s horses running lower; scorched clouds smoke; elevated regions split into chasms, lose moisture, and vegetation burns; cities and nations perish in flames. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND.; lines 2895-2997 | high | Neptune three times tries to raise his arms from the water, but cannot endure the scorching heat of the air. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND.; lines 2999-3129 | medium | Ætna is identified as Sicily’s volcanic mountain, and the flames caused by Phaëton’s fall are said to have redoubled its own flames. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3174-3264 | high | The fable summary says Jupiter hurls thunder at Phaëton to save the universe from being consumed; the narrative says all things will perish unless he assists. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3358-3456 | high | Jupiter surveys heaven and earth after fire damage, cares especially for Arcadia, and restores springs, rivers, grass, leaves, and injured forests. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5030-5135 | high | Fable V states that Jupiter visits Semele; he uses a less baneful thunder, but Semele's mortal body cannot endure the ethereal shock and she is burned among her nuptial presents. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TWELFTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7734-7787 | medium | Amycus tears a chandelier with blazing lamps from a shrine and dashes it against Celadon's forehead, crushing his face and skull. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI / CHAPTER XV / CHAPTER XVI; lines 4896-4988 | medium | Mian Mir tells the Emperor that Mullah Shah may speak incautiously in ecstasy, but warns that this holy man is a consuming fire and that persecution could bring disaster. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CERES. / APHRODITE (VENUS). / VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL).; lines 2071-2157 | high | The fiery horses run out of control, threatening heaven and earth; Phaethon drops the reins, mountains and forests burn, and waters dry up. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12098-12221 | high | Surtr rides through a fiery breach with a flaming sword and followers; Bifröst sinks beneath their horses as they ride toward Asgard. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12224-12362 | high | Surtr casts fiery brands over heaven, earth, and Hel; flames surround Yggdrasil, reach the gods' palaces, destroy vegetation, and make the waters boil. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12980-13082 | medium | Fimbul-winter is compared with fighting at Troy, and Ragnarok with the burning of Troy; Thor, Fenris wolf, Odin, and Vidar are aligned with figures from the Trojan cycle. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XII: FORSETI / CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD / CHAPTER XV: VIDAR; lines 5896-6019 | medium | Vidar is depicted as armoured, sword-girt, and shod with a great iron or leather shoe; one explanation says Grid designed the shoe as protection for his last-day fight against fire, like her iron gauntlet shielding Thor against Geirrod. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING; lines 739-863 | medium | Thor avoids Bifröst lest he damage it; Heimdall guards it with sword and Giallar-horn, which announces divine travel and will sound at Ragnarok. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7475-7592 | medium | Odin asks who would refuse to weep for Balder, revealing his identity. The Vala refuses further speech and returns to the tomb’s silence until the end of the world, when Loki breaks his chains and the world falls in flames. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXII. The Gift Of The Treasures. / Canto XXXVII. The Coats Of Bark. / Canto XLVI. The Halt. / Canto XLIX. The Crossing Of The Rivers.; lines 18870-18969 | medium | She says Raghu’s pride will not accept disgrace, praises Ráma as dutiful and powerful, and imagines his golden arrows burning the seas like final doom. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto X. Rishyasring Invited. / Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed. / Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished.; lines 2783-2944 | medium | The immortals pray to Brahmá, saying that Rávaṇ, ruler of the giant race, torments gods and penance-loving saints and scourges earth, heaven, and hell. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XIX. The Rousing Of Khara. / Canto XXI. The Rousing Of Khara. / Canto XXIII. The Omens. / Canto XXIV. The Host In Sight.; lines 29362-29521 | medium | The armed giant host approaches Ráma’s post; Ráma faces Khara’s host before his dwelling, draws arrows, strains his bow, burns with wrath like world-ending fire, and is compared to Śiva at Daksha’s sacrificial rite; the demon host’s armor and chariots flash with fiery light. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLIII. The Wondrous Deer. / Canto XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The Combat. / Canto LX. Lakshman Reproved.; lines 35230-35390 | high | Ráma says he is changed from gentleness to vengeance, will slay life, sweep away fiends, and devastate the triple world unless the gods restore Sítá safe and well. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLIII. The Wondrous Deer. / Canto XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The Combat. / Canto LX. Lakshman Reproved.; lines 35393-35562 | high | Rāma stands incensed, mourning his ravished dame; he looks at his bow and is compared to fire of Fate or Hara at doomsday, able to desolate or consume the triple world. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLV. The Seven Defeated. / Canto XLVI. The Captains. / Canto XLVII. The Death Of Aksha. / Canto LIII. The Punishment.; lines 47737-47909 | medium | Hanuman, with tail ablaze, scales palaces and spreads conflagration from house to house; Vibhishan's house alone is spared, wind fans the fire, and the scene is compared to dissolution and falling heavenly citadels. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto IV. The March. / Canto XI. The Summons. / Canto XX. The Spies. / Canto XXI. Ocean Threatened.; lines 49896-49982 | medium | Rama raises his hands toward the ocean, lies on sacred grass, recalls Sita, and vows that the host will pass to the southern shore or Ocean will be no more. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XI. The Summons. / Canto XX. The Spies. / Canto XXI. Ocean Threatened. / Canto XXII. Ocean Threatened.; lines 49985-50125 | medium | Rama angrily threatens the Sea that fiery arrow-rain will dry its channels, allowing him and the Vanara host to cross on foot, and that sea creatures will not be spared. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XX. The Spies. / Canto XXI. Ocean Threatened. / Canto XXII. Ocean Threatened. / Canto XXIII. The Omens.; lines 50370-50519 | medium | Ráma sends Rávaṇ a warning to tremble for his sin of stealing the queen; he predicts Rávaṇ's warriors and Lanká will fall under fiery shafts, like a heavenly fiery bolt against demons. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLII. The Sally. / Canto XLIII. The Single Combats. / Canto XLIV. The Night. / Canto L. The Broken Spell.; lines 53066-53172 | medium | Ravana and Lakshman exchange arrows; Ravana hurls a Brahma-bestowed weapon fierce like world-ending flames, Lakshman falls, then rises, breaks Ravana's bow, and wounds him. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto L. The Broken Spell. / Canto LX. Kumbhakarna Roused. / Canto LXXIV. The Medicinal Herbs. / Canto LXXV. The Night Attack.; lines 54686-54845 | medium | The blaze is likened to earth's final overthrow; “Proud Lanká was one blaze of fire,” shining far away while cries and roars echo through earth and sky. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIX. The Battle. / Canto CXIV. Vibhishan Consecrated. / Canto CXVI. The Meeting. / Canto CXIX. Glory To Vishnu.; lines 56095-56231 | medium | “Thou wilt appear in serpent form / When sinks the earth in fire and storm.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO. / HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES.; lines 57936-58038 | high | Kalki, the future white-horse avatar, will appear with a drawn scimitar blazing like a comet, end the present age by destroying the world, and renovate creation with an age of purity. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar. / Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth. / Canto XLI. Kapil. / Canto XLV. The Quest Of The Amrit.; lines 6134-6289 | medium | For a thousand seasons the snake is drawn back and forth; his tortured heads shed deadly venom, and a pestilential poison bursts out like flame, consuming the homes of god, fiend, and man. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 62942-63076 | low | Gorresio interprets Kapil as possibly a hidden fiery force that bursts forth in volcanic effects and notes Kapil is a name of Agni, God of Fire. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO.; lines 64295-64428 | high | “The conflagration which destroys the world at the end of a Yuga or age.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 64710-64863 | high | Aurva’s wrath produced a world-threatening flame; he cast it into the ocean, where it stayed concealed with the face of a horse. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLVII. Sumati. / Canto L. Janak. / Canto LIV. The Battle. / Canto LV. The Hermitage Burnt.; lines 7166-7341 | low | Viśvāmitra, proud of the weapons, returns to Vaśishṭha’s grove and launches dire weapons until the hermitage lies in ashes; inmates, pupils, birds, and deer flee in every direction. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLVII. Sumati. / Canto L. Janak. / Canto LIV. The Battle. / Canto LV. The Hermitage Burnt.; lines 7343-7376 | medium | “The staff he waved was all aglow / Like Yáma’s sceptre” and like “the lurid fire of Fate / Whose rage the worlds will desolate.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LVII. Trisanku. / Canto LVIII. Trisanku Cursed. / Canto LIX. The Sons Of Vasishtha. / Canto LXI. Sunahsepha.; lines 8155-8318 | high | As the saint checks his breath, smoke-clouds roll around his brow and the three worlds are filled with dread as if covered with flames. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | CONTENTS / INVOCATION.(1) / BOOK I.(6) / OM.(8); lines 864-991 | low | Hanumán destroys the garden gate, kills several opponents, yields to capture, endures insults in honor of Brahmá’s decree, burns the town, speaks again with Sítá, and returns to Ráma with tidings. | record |