Preface : p. vii PREFACE. ALL SWEETNESS, says the Rig Weda, IS COLLECTED IN THE HEIFER a: the Red One of the Dawn. And the Oriental use of the word, "heifer", to signify a wife or queen, is familiar to every reader of the Hebrew Bible. If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, said Samson, ye had not found out...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Shir'irsha : p. 42 SHIRSHA. AND they hovered before him, as he slept all night on his bed of leaves, and in the morning he rose before the sun, and went out and stood on the brink of the pool. And as he gazed at its surface, which was dotted with lotuses like a panther's skin, there entered into his heart...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Ash'oka : p. 53 ASHKA. THEN all night long, he lay tossing on his bed of leaves. And in the morning he rose before the sun, and went out and stood before the pool, and watched the parrots screaming in the "ashwattha" tree, with beaks that were tipped with the colour of the dawn: till he saw the "cht" coming...
A Political Alliance : p. 1 A HEIFER OF THE DAWN. INVOCATION. "Salutation to the great Third eye of the Master of all Emotion: that eye, which could wither the God of Love with shooting flames, and yet open, to her confusion, with the tenderness of a flower on the bashful Prwat, as she was endeavouring to rob him...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Kadamba : KADAMBA. AND he lay all night on his bed of leaves, repenting of his doubts: and in the morning he arose before the sun, and went out, and watched the eastern sky changing colour like an opal as the night drove away before the dawn: but the "cht" never came. And as the day grew older, the King grew...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Sham'i : SHAM. AND he lay all night, tossing on his bed of leaves: and in the morning, he rose before the sun, and went out. And as he stood watching the fish, raising their silver heads from the water to nibble the lotus stalks, he saw the "cht" coming towards him, with a yellow flower of the "sham" in her...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Shr'iphala : SHRPHALA. THEN he dreamed of Madhupamanjar, all night long, and in the morning he rose before the sun, and went out. And as he stood listening to the joyous cries of the "chakrawka" and his mate, meeting in the morning after a night of separation, the "cht" came towards him through the trees...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Lotus : LOTUS. THEN all night long, he slept profoundly on his bed of leaves, and rose only when the sun had arisen. And when he went out, he found the "cht" standing waiting for him on the edge of the pool, with a red lotus in her hand. And she seemed in his eyes like the peace of his own mind embodied...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Amaranth : AMARANTH. AND all night, he slept with the "Kadamba" flower on his bed of leaves: and in the morning he went out, and watched the fire-flies on the pool hastening to hide their lamps before they should be shamed by the coming of the Great Lamp of day. And presently the "cht" came towards him...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Jasmine : JASMINE. THEN he tossed all night on his bed of leaves, and in the morning rose, and went out upon the steps, just as the young sun was flooding with gold p. 22 the blue floor of the eastern sky. And as he stood watching, suddenly the "cht" came again towards him with twinkling feet, holding...
Title Page : p. i A HEIFER OF THE DAWN p. ii '"Lo! how Dark Night shrinks from her sister Dawn, and gloomy Black gives way to Rosy Red"'--Rig Weda, vii. 71 Frontispiece p. iii A HEIFER OF THE DAWN TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BY F. W. BAIN NINTH EDITION METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LOND...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Pal'asha : PALSHA. AND he lay all night, tossing on his bed of leaves. and in the morning, he arose before the sun, and stood sadly, plunged in meditation, like a crane, on the edge of the pool. And he never noticed how the "cht" came towards him, till he looked up, and saw her standing beside him, with a red...
The Wax Of A New Moon. P'atal'i : PTAL. THEN he tossed all night on his bed of leaves, and rose before the sun, and went out and stood on the steps of the pool, watching the images of the last stars paling in the mirror of its water before the advent of the day. And he looked and to! out of the trees again the "cht" came towards...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Champak : CHAMPAK. THEN all night long, he tossed on his bed of leaves, and in the morning he arose very early, long before the sun, and went out upon the steps, and stood waiting. And he looked up, and saw in the air high above him a row of swans, flying swiftly to the north, with bodies that gleamed ruddy...
The Wax Of A New Moon. Mango : p. 11 p. 12 THE WAX OF A NEW MOON. p. 13 MANGO. THEN in the early morning, on the first day of the light fortnight, the young King arose before the sun, and went out of the temple, and wandered on the steps that went down into the pool, in which all the lotuses were preparing to welcome their...
The Wax Of A New Moon. A Flowerless Dawn : A FLOWERLESS DAWN. THEN he tossed all night upon his bed of leaves, and in the morning he rose, and went out upon the steps, and stood on the edge of the pool, listening to the birds in the trees beginning to awake, and salute by their songs the advent of the lord of the day. And as he stood, he...