Modern Review October 1912

The Prince Gautama in the year ago B. C. in the populous districts of the Sakya kingdom awakening suddenly to the sense of His own infinite compassion and to the career of a world-thinker feels an ovepowering need to meet with the scholars of His age and made His way therefore towards the neighbourhood of Rajgir in the kingdom of Magadh. [...] in India of an organised empire but the words of Buddha himself they build the stupa over a Chakravarti Raja -a suzerain monarch —at a place where four roads meet" shows that the people of that early period were familiar enough with the drama of the rise and fall of empires and that the miracle of Chandra Gupta's retirement to Pataliputra thence to rule as far as the Panjab and the Indian Oce [...] I had so long associated the touch of her feet with the jingle of her ankles that when to-day I suddenly found that music gone the purling of the water sounded like a doleful chant in my ears the whistling of the leaves in the manggrove seemed as the wind's voice of mouri ng. [...] Everyday as his voice rang forth the sky above the eastern bank of the Ganges flushed crimson a roseate lining was formed on the fringe of the clouds Darkness dropped down like the burst shell of an opening bud and the Dawn like a flower revealed its ruddy hue little by little in the lake of the sky. [...] Above her on the bosom of the Ganges lay the unbroken broad moonlight - -behind her here and there in hush and grove in the shadow of the temple in the base of ruined houses by the side of the tank in the palm grove.