Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1852

The poem of Raghu Vans’a celebrates the glories of the race of Ráma of the Solar line while the Malniblirata the great Indian Epic presents us with a lively portrait of the varied adventures of the Pándus who gloried in being “ the children of the moon.” The Raghu Vansa ranks among the Mahá Kályas or sic great poems and has been distinguished for the beauty of its similes and the power of imag [...] The dust from the Ketak tree raised by the winds from the Mural river served to polish the soldier's armour the tinkling coats of mail drowned the sound of the betel trees agitated by the wind. [...] Him followed Kalingti's monarch lord of Alahendra whose arms retain the traces of the twanging bow a dweller ou the ocean where the dashing waves louder than the trumpet sounding the hours gleaing through the windows awake from sleep ; the shore resounds with the rustle of palm leaves while from other isles the winds waft the fragrance of the groves of clove—he was rejected. [...] And at the same time the hope of the Ittikhasas the hundred heads of Ravana were cut off at one blow prsenting the appearance of the sun's image reflected one hundred ways by the flickering waves a shower of flowers followed by a swarm of bees was poured on the head of Rama by the gods. [...] She announced herself as the tutelary goddess of the city deserted by its ruler of the solar race in consequence of which the portals fell to ruin like the end of day when the sun sets behind the western hills and the clouds are scattered by the wind—in the royal paths where wandered once the wanton girls of shining feet the dogs now hunt for food ; the water which once in the tanks struck by t