 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 516 pages
...comets in the gloom, Whose edge shall smite the fierce barbarian horde ; Hail to thee, Keshav ! hall, and hear, and come. And fill this song of Jayadev...to redeem And sweet to living souls. Thou Mystery ! Tbon Light of Life ! Thou Dawn beyond the dream ! Fish ! that didit outswim the flood ; Tortoise... | |
 | Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur) - 1922 - 498 pages
...nations. 3 Inditche Allerthunskunde, Vol. Ill, p. 790. LYRIC POETRY. Ami fill this song of Jai Deva -with thee, And make it wise to teach, strong to redeem,...Thou, Light of Life ! Thou, Dawn beyond the dream ! — Hymn to Vishnu. THE Lyric poetry o£ the Hindus is the finest of its kind in the world, for the... | |
 | Steve Zeitlin - 2000 - 148 pages
...universe to begin again. The Hindu Gods have many incarnations. The ancient "Hymn to Vishnu" exclaims: Fish! that didst outswim the flood; Tortoise! whereon earth hath stood; Boar! who with thy tusk held'st high The world, that mortals might not die; Lion! who hast giants torn; Dwarf! who laugh'da... | |
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twas written in the Scriptures so — Thou bad'st our altars be no more imbrued With blood of victims : Keshav! bending low — We praise thee, Wielder of the sweeping sword, Brilliant as curving comets in the gloom. Whose edge shall smite the fierce... 