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The New Review March 1948

1948

The vitory of the king is not of the same kind as the victory of the commoner the merchant or the priest; yet all these are victories of the different sections of the society in their own spheres. [...] (Puram Puram 278.) The description of a young fighter charging into the enemy's ranks riding fearlessly into the valley of death reminds us of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade: `In the midst of the battlefield of Nattur widespread like the sea breaking into the hostile king's camp and tossing lances from place to place the boy led his men and rising high cut down the forces coming in [...] Ponmudiar a poetess thus enumerates the duties of society to the child : `My duty it is to bring forth and rear the child; the father's duty is to make the boy cultured and great; the ironsmith's duty it is to provide the boy with a lance; the king's duty it is to bestow on him good conduct; it is the duty of the youth himself to win fierce war and overthrow the elephant force.' Steeped in this [...] Therefore bending not your sceptre of justice in favour of your men ignoring not the virtues of others unknown combining at once the power of the sun the.soitness of the moon and the beneficence of-the clouds 'banishing all poverty may you live long longer than.theOBJECTIVE POETRY IN OLD TAMIL 187 number* of the ribbed sands of the sea of the Chendil (or Tiruchendur) where near the beauti [...] But one cannot forget that the Indian thought structure of the past has at the same time disavowed the ideal of achievement that it has considered the whole pehenomnal world as inherently antagonistic to the spiritual life that the Upanishad was chiefly the philosophy of the waderer who had abandoned all connexion with the life of man.
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Pages
80
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120030
Segment Pages Author Actions
This Side and that
161-168 A.S.J. Lallemand view
Gandhiji
169-176 A. Lallemand view
Objective Poetry in Old Tamil
177-187 J. Parthasarathi view
Gandhiji’s Religious Complex
188-204 R. Pereira view
Civic Responsibility of- Free Indians
205-214 G. Bandyopadhyay view
Auto-Da-Fe
215-222 J.H. Gense view
An Interlude With an Invalid
223-231 W.E. D’souza view
India’s Deteriorating Economy
232-237 R.V. Rao view
Some Recent Books
238-240 A.S.J. Lallemand view

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