Sunset. An Evil Eye : p. 1 p. 2 p. 3 SUNSET AN EVIL EYE. THE DESCENT OF THE SUN. INVOCATION. "O glorious and infinite Spirit of Peace, Lord of Ascetics, who whirling round in thy wild dance dost lend as it were its colour to the sky, in whose mirror are seen reflected the blueness of thy throat and the silver digit...
Night. Vi. A Lotus Of The Night : VI. A LOTUS OF THE NIGHT Then he said to himself: Though I cut off the tongue of this ill-omened Wairg, yet he never told me my way. And he went on, sword in hand, along a silver path, among trees that resembled Rkshasas, for they let in through the hair of their branches the light of the mo...
Night. V. Nightwalker : V. NIGHTWALKER And then as a black bee roves from flower to flower he wandered from city to city, and from one country to another: and he went north and east and west and south, till the elephants of the eight quarters knew him as it were by sight. Yet he never found anyone who could tell him his...
Night. Ix. Recognition : p. 72 IX. RECOGNITION And as he rose from the water, there rang in his ears, loud and clear, the sound of the beating of drums. And he listened, and heard the criers crying: "Whatsoever high-caste man has been to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun, let him come to the King: he shall share the King's...
Night. Ii : p. 30 II. BY BEAT OF DRUM So the criers went through the streets of the capital, beating drums and crying aloud: "Whatsoever high-caste man has been to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun, let him come to the King: he shall share the King's kingdom, and marry the King's daughter". And hearing...
Night. Iii. An Eclipse Of The Sun : p. 32 III. AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN Now Kamalamitra, when he was separated from Anushayin by the curse of the ascetic, fell down to earth, and was born as the son of a King of the Solar Race in a distant country. And his father gave him the name of Umra-Singh p, for the astrologers said: He will live...
Dawn. Dawn : p. 107 DAWN. p. 108 p. 109 AND at that very moment, the curse came to an end. Then those two erring lovers regained their immortal natures. And they looked at one another, dazed and bewildered, for they thought that they had awoken from a dream. And their spirits rose out of those mortal bodies...
Title Page : p. v THE DESCENT OF THE SUN A CYCLE OF BIRTH TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT By F.W. BAIN SIXTH EDITION METHUEN & Co. LTD. 36 Essex Street W.C. LONDON 1914 (Vol II. In Bain's Indian Stories) [1903] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , March 2005. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is...
Night. Xiv. Illusion : XIV. ILLUSION But Shr, when she came to herself, sat weeping, and fearing for herself in the future: for she foreboded evil from the malicious pranks of the daughter of the Daitya. And yet she could not tell, how she could possibly have offended her, or deserved her anger. And as soon as day broke...
Night. Viii. The Silver Swans : VII. THE SILVER SWANS And as the water kept on rising, rising, Umra-Singh said to himself: Extraordinary is the guile of women, and copious their tears, but this daughter of a Daitya surely surpasses them all. For who ever heard of tears that, like rivers, could flood a quarter of the world? But...
Night. Xi. The Lord Of The Beasts : XI. THE LORD OF THE BEASTS Now in the meanwhile it happened that Maheshwara, as he roamed through the sky with Prwati on his breast, looked down to earth, and caught sight of Umra-Singh wandering in the forest, uttering lamentations, and exclaiming: O Shr, where art thou hiding? Hast thou, like...
Night. Iv. Inspiration : p. 43 IV. INSPIRATION But Umra-Singh lay in the street, more like a dead than a living man, covered with bruises and bereft of sense. And the people crowded round him, jeering and scouting and pointing at him, and giving him blows and kicks. And he looked in the midst of those base mockers like...
Night. Xvi. Before Dawn : XVI. BEFORE DAWN And now, by the decree of destiny, it so happened, that Umra-Singh, having wandered through p. 104 the whole world looking for his wife, roaming up and down in the forest, was lying asleep in an-other place, close to that very pool. And suddenly he laughed in his sleep. For in his...
Night. Xiii. A Light In Darkness : XIII. A LIGHT IN DARKNESS But Shr, when she got out of the palace, instantly went out of the city by unfrequented paths, and entered the Great Forest. For she said to herself: If I remain in the city, I may fall again into the power of the King, or, it may be, of someone still worse. For al...
Night. Viii. The Land Of The Lotus : VIII. THE LAND OF THE LOTUS But Umra-Singh rose out of the water like a fowl, and saw the Land of the Lotus away on the sea before him. And he shouted for joy, and began to swim in that direction. And he swam on all day, and at last, though with difficulty, he reached the shore, when his strength...
Night. I. A Lotus Of The Day : p. 18 p. 19 NIGHT A SLEEP AND A DREAM p. 21 I. A LOTUS OF THE DAY BUT Anushayin a, when she disappeared in the forest, fell down to earth like a falling star, and entered the womb of the favourite wife of the King of Indirlaya b, and was born after the manner of mortals as his daughter...
Night. Xv. The Dead Of Night : XV. THE DEAD OF NIGHT So she lay, all night long: and when at length the day dawned, she came, though with difficulty, back to herself. And she tried to rise, but could not, for her limbs refused to do their duty. So she lay there, cold as snow, and shivering like the surface of a lake ruffled by...
Night. X. Separation : X. SEPARATION And he reeled about like a drunken man, this way and that way, jostling the people, who marvelled and mocked at him: See, see, the ragged Rajpoot, the suitor of the King's daughter, whose very sight has killed her! But he heard nothing but the words of Shr, and saw nothing but her...
Introduction : p. ix INTRODUCTION. HERE is a fairy tale which I found in an old Hindoo manuscript. As the title shows, it is a solar myth. Literally translated, its name is: "The glory of the Going Down of the Sun". But this is only the exoteric, physical envelope of the inner, mystical meaning, which is: "...
Night. Xii. The Other Body : p. 83 XII. THE OTHER BODY But in the meanwhile Shr u, when she abandoned the body in Indirlay, flew in the twinkling of an eye to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. And there she entered that other body, lying in a couch in the Palace hall. Then instantly she opened her eyes, and rose up, as if...