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Purifier of offspring, great poet, Uttering spells and charms,
Combining branches of three qualities With leaves of many names, red as earth It flowered with good deeds, and good thoughts Complete deliverance, union of substances The twice-born of pure mind have experienced the flavour of perfect wisdom A banian tree of delight, spreading abroad virtues The branches of (this) excellent tree in the three
Like an oblation offered to Devi,
Hero of spells, very terrible, Giving pleasure to kings by thy poetry : The childish sports, one by one, Of the gods having extolled in thy poems, Having uttered unchecked speech, From which to me (comes) wisdom,
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Unconquered, victorious, diffusing virtues. 5. Bhujanga prayåta metre. First be the well adorned Bhujangiº taken Whose name this one, is spoken in many ways Second, be taken the god, the lord of life Who placed the universe by powerful spells on Seshnāg. In the four Vedas by the Brahmans the glory of Hari is spoken,
Of whose virtue, this unvirtuous world is witness. Third, the Bhārati Vyāsa spake the Bhārath, Who bore witness to the more than human cha
rioteer.f Fourth Suka devā at the feet of Parikhit
Who extolled all the kings of the race of Kuru Fifth
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Who placed a six-fold necklace on the neck of King Nala. Sixth Kalidasa, fair of speech, fair of wit,
That word which is the visible form of Brahm,
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Why should not the best of poets speak it 2 Kavit, Chand's speech. To his wife (saith) the bard Chand, muttering soft and low, That true word of Brahm,
Purifier of (all) others itself pure, That word which has no form, Stroke, letter, or colour, Unshaken, unfathomable, boundless, Purifier of all things in the three worlds,
That word of Brahma, let me expound The glory of the Gurus, pleasing to Saraswati, If in the arrangement of my phrases I should succeed,
It will be pleasing to thee, Olotus-faced one 9. Kavit, Chand's wife's speech.
Thou art the poet, the excellent bard, Gazing on the heavens with unclouded intellect.S
Whose speech is that of a poet, a master-poet
Skilful in the arrangement of metres.
fair-speaking, Who made the pure fragrance of the mouth of Kali,
Having made the song of the Peacock-youth :
Who firmly bound the dyke of three-fold enjoy. ment.
Seventh, Danda mali's charming poem,
The wave of whose wit is as the stream of Gangá. Jayadeva eighth, poet, king of poets Who only made the song of Govinda ; Take all these poets as thy spiritual guide, Poet Chand,
Whose body is as a sacrifice inspired by Devi. The poets who have uttered praises and excellent speech, -
Of them Poet Chand has spoken highly. 6.
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The speech in verse of Chand, excellent. Hearing him utter, his wife (says) Purifier of the body, 0 poet, Uttering excellent speech. 7.
[Oct. 4, 1872.
t These words are probably a corruption, SHTTRIZI RTU-T being for SFTIf I+, more than earthly, from SH, over, and It is an allusion
to Krishna's acting as charioteer to Arjuna in the great war.
Of them speak a good word." 10. Karit Chand's speech. To her of the elephant-gait, Chand Singing a pleasant rhyme (said), Ravisher of the soul, tendril of enjoyment, Possessing the fragrance of the ocean of the gods, (Thou) of the glancing eye, in the flower of thy youth, Beloved of my soul, giver of bliss, Wife, free from all evil qualities, (Thou) who hast obtained the fruit of the worship of Gauri. last
- I do not know what the allusion is here.
charioteer.
Hero, Chief of heroes, and all his paladins,
As many poems as there have been from first to
Kavit. Saith the wife to her husband :
qfit, earth, and HRTää.
The wave of thy wit is like Gangá, Uttering speech immortal, soft Good men hearing it are rejoiced, (It) subdues like a spell of might. The incarnation King Prithiraj the lord, Who maintained the happiness of his kingdom,
§ Of the many senses of Tſä, the one here given is the only one that will yield any meaning. | This seems to be an allusion to the Sanskrit poem call ed Kumara Sambhava, or the “Birth of the Wargod.” Kartikeya, whose emblem is the peacock. Chand may have written a paraphrase of that work, as he seems to have been well acquainted with Sanskrit literature.
- Tää is still the common Panjabi for a “word.” Many
of these Panjabi words occur in Chand, which is natural, as
- I cannot understand this line.
he was a native of Lahor.
