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Asia. May 1921

1921

the days of the Lord of the White Elephant the ng Pagan Men was a boy named MindOn son of the Second Queen and the King. [...] For before the Indian woman had come to the King the Queen had borne a son Ananda and he was pale and slender and the King despised him because of the wiles of Dwaymenau saying he was fit only to sit among the women having the soul of a slave and he laughed bitterly as the pale child crouched in the corner to see him pass. [...] The ladies bore in their hands rpore gold-leaf that they might acquire merit by offering this for the service of the Mater of the Law and indeed this temple was the offering of the Queen herself who because she bore the name of the Mother of the Lord excelled in good works and was the Moon of this lower world in charity and piety. [...] This ended the Queen rose and did obeisance to the Lord and retiring paced back beneath the White Canopy and entered the couryard where the palace stood—a palace of noble teawood brown and golden and carved like lace into strange fantasies of spires and pinnacles and branches where Nats and Tree Spirits and Beloos and swaying river maidens mingled and met amid fruits and leaves and flowe [...] That night after the feasting when the girls were dancing the dance of the fairies and spirits in gold dresses winged on the legs and shoulders and high gold-spired and pinnacled caps the King missed the little Prince Ananda and asked why he was absent.
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Pages
94
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120323
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-391 John Foord view
The Coconut-Palms of Jolo in Sululand
392-392 John Foord view
The Hatred of the Queen
393-399 L.Adams Bck view
The Cherry-Blossom of Japan in America
400-401 John Foord view
Side-Lights on Soviet Moscow
402-409 Washington B. Vanderlip view
Unexploited Siberia
410-412 John Foord view
The Sea-Tragedy of the Jungle-Folk
413-iv Charles Mayer view
The City of Heaven
417-424 John Foord view
The Cannibals at the “Movies”
425-ix Martin Johnson view
An American in Asia
432-438 Louis Graves view
Digging for the Roots of our Family Tree
439-444 Chapman Andrews view
Old China and New
445-451 John Dewey view
Asiatic Book-Shelf
452-453 John Foord view

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