The Vásavadattá: a romance by Subhandu ; accompanied by Śivaráma Tripáṭhin's perpetual gloss, entitled DarpaṇaBaptist Mission Press, 1859 - 362 páginas |
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Página 3 - I tell you, captain, — if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Página 38 - Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky, O love of God, how rich and pure!
Página 13 - Hindu poetry passed from elevation to extravagance. The place to which the RETNAVALI is entitled in the dramatic literature of the Hindus is the more interesting, as the date is verifiable beyond all reasonable doubt. It is stated in the prelude to be the composition of the sovereign, Sri Hersha Deoa.
Página 24 - ... better esteemed. For if this child be Immanuel, God with us ; then without this child, this Immanuel, we be without God* Without Him in this world (saith the Apostle) ; and if without Him in this, without Him in the next ; and if without Him there, if it be not Immann-e/, it will be Immanu-/if/; and that, and no other place, will fall, I fear me, to our share.
Página 24 - I fear me, to our share. Without Him this we are. What with Him ? Why, if we have Him, and God by Him, we need no more ; Immanu-el and Immanu-all.
Página 35 - The names of women should be agreeable, soft, clear, captivating the fancy, auspicious, ending in long vowels, resembling words of benediction.
Página 27 - I have said more upon this subject than was perhaps necessary, but I am anxious that the Hindus should have justice done to them, and not be held up to the world, as they have been, by a mistaken, and I am afraid, a spiteful zeal, as monsters of impurity.
Página 50 - ... the Kanaujan Court. Apparently, he was there in the character of hostage ; and perhaps he received the assistance of troops from his home unexpectedly. " Rajyavardhana, taking with him Bhandin, a subject of high rank, by whom his education had been superintended, and an army of ten thousand horses, marched to attack the king of Malava. Him he slew; but his own fate was defeat and death at the hands of Gupta, king of Gauda, of which the news was brought back by Kuntala, a chief officer of cavalry....
Página 30 - Pulinda is applied to any wild or barbarous tribe. Those here named are some of the people of the deserts along the Indus; but Pulindas are met with in many other positions, especially in the mountains and forests across Central India, the haunts of the Bheels and Gonds. ff So Ptolemy places the Pulindai along the banks of the Narmada, to the frontiers of Larice, the Lata or Lar of the Hindus, — Khandesh and part of Gujerat.
Página 26 - it is nothing beyond the voucher of the severest verity to rank him, with his fellow Asiatics, be it in their highest estate, as no better, at the very best, than a specious savage.