A Digit of the Moon And Other Love Stories From the Hindoo
A Digit of the Moon And Other Love Stories From the Hindoo
F W Francis William Bain
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Hast thou, like the desert, no pity for the antelope that is dying of thirst for the water of thine eyes? * And im- mediately he remembered his boon to Kamala- mitra, and grasped the whole story from beginning to end. So he said to Uma with a smile : Go now to thy father, 2 and wait for me: for there is here a matter that demands my attention. Then his consort said to him in a cajoling tone: What is ' There is here an untranslatable play on the word tnriga- trishnd, "the thirst of the antelope,... " i. E. , the mirage of the desert, to which he compares her eyes. 2 I. E. , the Himalaya mountain, of which, or rather of whom, Parwati is the daughter, as her name signifies. 302 The Descent of the Sun the matter? tell me. Maheshwara said: I will tell thee afterwards : at present I have no leisure : depart. Thereupon the goddess went off pouting to the Snowy Mountain. But the moon-crested god descended to earth. And there, taking the form of an ascetic, he entered the forest. And standing in its densest part, his body white with ashes, garlanded with a necklace of skulls, with a half -moon in his yellow hair, he created by his supernatural power a gong, hanging from a banyan tree in the centre of the wood.
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