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The Lay of Alha - a Saga of Rejput Chivalry as sung by Minstrels of Northern India

1923

William Waterfield the translator of these_ Ballads was born in 1832 and was the eldest son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield who for many years was Chief Clerk in the Political and Secret Department of the Board of Control which was the predecessor of the India Office. [...] The style adopted by him that of the English Border ballads is excellently suited to the subject and the occasional use of antique words and phraseology gives just the right idea of the rough and somewhat antique Bundeli Hindi dialect of the original. [...] the whole of the first fourth and thirteenth cantos and portions of the eighth and of the fifteenth. [...] Whether it was the same with the Mahoba-khancl or whether these form the groundwork of the two parts of the Kanauj collection I must leave to the students of the ancient poem to determine. [...] Chand's poem deals with the story from the point of view of Delhi and the Alh-khand from the point of view of Kanauj and Mahaba.
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Pages
279
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142752
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
1-8 William Waterfield view
Introduction
9-26 George Grierson view
List of Characters Appearing in the Cycle
27-38 unknown view
Canto I. The Wooing of King Prithi
39-56 unknown view
Canto II. The Nine Lakh Chain
57-66 unknown view
Canto III. The Maro Feud
67-143 unknown view
Canto IV. The Marriage of Alha
144-191 unknown view
Canto V. The Marriage of Malkhan
192-195 unknown view
Canto VI. The Marriage of Brahma
196-199 unknown view
Canto VII. The Marriage of Udan
200-202 unknown view
Canto VIII. The Return of Chandra Bel
203-211 unknown view
Canto IX. The Carrying off of Indal
212-214 unknown view
Canto X. Alha’s Banishment
215-216 unknown view
Canto XI. The Marriage of Lakhan
217-219 unknown view
Canto XII. The Ganjar War
220-221 unknown view
Canto XIII. The Sirsa War
222-237 unknown view
Canto XIV. The Battle of Kiratsagar
238-241 unknown view
Canto XV. The Return of Alha
242-252 unknown view
Canto XVI. The Battle of The Betwa
253-255 unknown view
Canto XVII. The Carrying off of Udan
256-258 unknown view
Canto XVIII. The Home-Bringing of Bela. I
259-260 unknown view
Canto XIX. The Home-Bringing of Bela. II
261-264 unknown view
Canto XX. Bela’s Vengeance
265-266 unknown view
Canto XXI. The Battle of the Sandal-Grove
267-268 unknown view
Canto XXII. The Sandal Pillars
269-270 unknown view
Canto XXIII. Bela Sati
271-274 unknown view
Appendix
275-278 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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