Portraits from Indian Classics

Lastly the fewness of the jewels upon her person corresponding to the fewness of the flowers upon the plant completes the exactness of the similitude. [...] 2I Relinquish !—thou hast sad mistook The tree from which is poison shook To be a sandal sweet and fair And restest sore deceived there ! —Bhavabhiitis' Uttaranimacharita Act I. The theme of the last portrait was the representation of beauty as conditioned by the emotion of sudden and overpowering love ; the subject of the present is the delination of grief resulting from the perpetration of [...] Insulting for example had been the cry of the soldiers ' Here is the horse here the standard or else proclamation of valour of the greatest warrior of the seven worlds and detroyer of the race of the ten-headed giant !'*---at which Lava burst out What ! Is the world deprived of Kshatriyas that such a proud cry is raised ?' f Of the same mould is Kus'a. [...] The scornful stare shot oblique forms the life of the picture ; the quivering of the lip arid the gloing of the eye and the knitting of the brow colour it to perfection. [...] And in her excitement the sight of the beholder was perforce drawn to the beauty of the eyebrows knit tgether of the lip that quivered and the eye that glowed.