In the Great God’s Hair. Translated from the Original Manuscript by F.W.Bain

Adoration to the Four Eightfold Divinities : the Eight Forms of the Lord of Time: the Eight Cardinal Points of Space : the Eight Sections of the Revelation of Panini : and the Eight Pairs of Petals of the Lotus of the World a. FAR away in the quarter of the north there stands a mighty mountain : of supereminence so trascendent that even the Mother of the World b was willing to call him fath [...] And as he spoke the Gandharwas and the Kinnaras and the Siddhas and Widyadharas came noiselessly and collected in the air and listened with eager ears. [...] And this heir was only eighteen years old and his name was Ranga a. And though he resembled in person a combination of the gods of love and war and was beloved by his subjects he was generous and hot-tempered and open-hearted and credulous and inexperienced in the ways of the world : and he fell accordingly are easy prey to the schemes of his relations who plotted against him : and he was oust [...] And the arrow fell back to the ground and Ranga took the string and tied it to the rope and drew it up rapidly till all the string came to an end and he held in his hands the two ends of the rope. [...] Moreover there are instants and atoms of time containing in themselves causes and consequences that run both ways into the two eternities of the past and the future being as it were the fruit of the one and the seed of the other : and many times it happens that the twinling of an eye determines the destiny of a soul.