The Kādambarī of Bāna, Volume 2Royal Asiatic Society, 1896 - 231 pages |
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adorned Agastya ambrosial ascetic asked bathed beauty bees beheld betel Bhagiratha birth Brahmans bright cakravākas Candrāpīḍa çastras charm cheeks Civa couch cowries creeper Çukanāsa curse darkness demons dwelling earth elephants entered eyes face father fear feet flowers followed fresh Gandharva garland gazed gladdened glance glow gods golden grace grief hamsas hand hast heart heavenly Ganges hermitage honoured ichor jewelled Kādambarī Kailasa Kāma Kapiñjala Kartikeya kaustubha Keyūraka king Kinnaras lake Lakshmi lord lotus lotus-beds lotuses Love's Madalekha Mahabharata Mahāçvetā mahouts maiden moon moonlight mountains necklace nectar night noble ocean palace parrot Patralekha peacocks pearls penance prince princess Pundarika queen Rāma rays replied rest retinue rose sandal saying seemed shame sight sorrow speech stars story stream sun's sweet Taralikā tears tell tender thee thine thou art thought thousand tree Ujjayinī Vaiçampayana Vishnu wandering waves women worship youth zenana
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Page 112 - Moreover, life is easily resigned by those whom sorrow has overwhelmed, but it needs a greater effort not to throw away life in heavy grief. This following another to death is most vain ! It is a path followed by the ignorant ! It is a mere freak of madness, a path of ignorance, an enterprise of recklessness, a view of baseness, a sign of utter thoughtlessness, and a blunder of folly, that one should resign life on the death of father, brother, friend, or husband. If life leaves us not of itself,...
Page xviii - A lovely ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly asse more white then snow ; Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page xvii - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was...
Page 22 - ... were rough with scars from keen weapons often used to make an offering of blood...
Page 21 - ... a crowd of evil deeds come together ; like a caravan of curses of the many hermits dwelling in the Dandaka Forest...
Page 27 - Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Page 77 - as I travelled some years since near Royston, met a herd of stags, about twenty, on the road, following a bagpipe and violin, which, while the music played, they went forward — when it ceased, they all stood still; and in this manner they were brought out of Yorkshire to Hampton Court.
Page 48 - Brahmans golden mustard-leaves adorned with every gem ; she stood in the midst of a circle drawn by the king himself, in a place where four roads meet, on the fourteenth night of the dark fortnight, and performed...
Page 113 - It is a mere frcck of madness, a path of ignorance, an enterprise of recklessness, a view of baseness, a sign of utter thoughtlessness, and a blunder of folly, that one should resign life on the death of father, brother, friend, or husband. If life leaves us not of itself, we must not resign it. For this leaving of life, if we examine it, is merely for our own interest, because we cannot bear our own cureless pain. To the dead man it brings no good whatever. For it is no means of bringing him back...
Page 64 - ... themselves by their followers. From the delusion as to their own divinity established in their minds, they are overthrown by false ideas, and they think their own pair of arms have received another pair...