Category: Poetry
Of the history of KÁLIDÁSA, to whom by general assent the KUMÁRA SAMBHAVA, or BIRTH OF THE WAR-GOD, is attributed, we know but little with any certainty; we can only gather from a memorial-verse which enumerates their names, that he was one of the 'Nine Precious Stones' that s...
While impious TÁRAK in resistless might Was troubling heaven and earth with wild affright, To BRAHMÁ'S high abode, by INDRA led, The mournful deities for refuge fled. As when th...
4. Chapter 4The holy Bráhman ceased: but UMÁ'S breast In silence heaved, by love and fear opprest. In mute appeal she turned her languid eye, Darkened with weeping, not with softening dye,...
3. Chapter 3Rash as some giddy moth that wooes the flame, LOVE seized the moment, and prepared to aim. Close by the daughter of the Mountain-King, He looked on ['S]IVA, and he eyed his stri...
5. Chapter 5In light and glory dawned the expected day Blest with a kindly star's auspicious ray, When gaily gathered at HIMÁLAYA'S call His kinsmen to the solemn festival. Through the broa...
1. Chapter 1Of the history of KÁLIDÁSA, to whom by general assent the KUMÁRA SAMBHAVA, or BIRTH OF THE WAR-GOD, is attributed, we know but little with any certainty; we can only gather from...
6. Chapter 6_The mystic Three._] "The triad of qualities," a philosophical term familiar to all the systems of Hindú speculation. They are thus explained in the _Tattwa Samása_, a text-book...