The Visva-Bharati Quarterly May—July 1949

The poet returns to things abiding and gives us the assurance of the abiding amidst the storm and stress of life...." —The Statesman "The vision of the infinite which the poet affords in what is finite and the transcedent worth of even the transient and simple things of the earth which he conveys in winged words are greater than the words which convey them. [...] Flowers in moonlight shadows of trees on the turf strains of distant music the march of the seasons the sensitiveness and poignancy of the human heart all these and a thousand sights and sounds which evoke in us the sense of beauty were subjects of which he sang and which he made more beautiful. [...] It is associted with the Ether element ( Aka Tattva ) the causal stage in which all dissolves and which is perceived only through the spiral of sound."20 THE VISVA-1tHARA QUARTFRIX The discus 'Beauteous Sight' ( Sudargana ) represents the third tendency the Rajas or expanding tendency horn of the fippbSitiOn of the two other tendencies it gives rise to the circular movement of planets. [...] Any systematic study of the Canons of Vastu-Sastras and of the extant examples with a view to discover the exact scientific laws could be accomplished only through the combined and prolonged efforts of and the co-ordinated team-work between technicians and scholars under the patrpnage of a learned institution possessed with the requisite resources and equipment. [...] The names of the human limbs from Päda to Sikhd and Siras are transferred to the architectural elements from the socle and the foundation to the finial of the temples.