The Iliad and Odyssey of India1875 - 21 pages |
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Page 3 - Inclian people ; and it replaces patriotism with that race and stands instead of nationality to possess these two precious and inexhaustible books, and to drink from them as from mighty and overflowing rivers. The value ascribed in...
Page 3 - Bible — generation after generation — to all the succeeding and countless millions of Indian people; and it replaces patriotism with that race and stands in stead of nationality to possess these two precious and inexhaustible books, and to drink from them as from mighty and overflowing rivers.
Page 19 - These prefatory remarks seemed necessary to introduce the subjoined close paraphrase of the "Book of the Great Journey," — and the "Book of the Entry into Heaven ; being the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Parvas of the noble, but, as yet, almost unknown Mahabharata. THE...
Page 17 - ... and arms. And every one was in perfect friendship with each other, for enmity had departed from amongst them; and each one was preceded by his bards and eulogists who sang his praises ; and very many singing men and dancing girls appeared with them, singing and dancing. Now when...
Page 7 - Draupada, whose lovely daughter is to take for her husband (on the well-understood condition that she approves of him) the fortunate archer who can strike the eye of a golden fish, whirling round upon the top of a tall pole, with an arrow shot from an enormously strong bow. The princess, adorned with radiant gems, holds a garland of flowers in her hand for the victorious suitor; but none of the rajahs can bend the bow. Arjuna, disguised as a...
Page 6 - From the bountiful infinite west, from the happy memorial places Full of the stately repose and the lordly delight of the dead, Where the fortunate islands are lit with the light of ineffable faces, And the sound of a sea without wind is about them, and sunset is red...
Page 3 - Yet these most remarkable poems contain almost all the history of ancient India, so far as it can be recovered; together with such inexhaustible details of its political, social, and religious life, that the antique Hindoo world really stands epitomised in them.
Page 6 - great war of Bharat " has its first scenes in Hastinapur, an ancient and vanished city, formerly situated about sixty miles north-east of the modern Delhi. The Ganges has washed away even the ruins of this, the metropolis of King Bharat's dominions. The poem opens with a "sacrifice of snakes," but this is a prelude connected merely by a curious legend with the real beginning.
Page 17 - And the day passed away so slowly that it seemed like a whole year to them, and at last the sun went down, and they all bathed in the river by command of Vyasa, and said their prayers and went and stood near him ; and Yudishthira and his brethren were on the side of Vyasa. and everybody else stood where places could be found. Vyasa then went into the water and prayed and bathed, and he then came out and stood by Yudishthira, and called out the names of each of the persons who had been...