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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems

BOOK XXVI
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Manmatha, Heart-disturber.

Ananga, the Incorporeal.
God of each lovely sight, each lovely sound.
Soul-kindling, world-inflaming, star y-crowned, Eternal Cama! or doth Smara bright, Or proud Ananga give thee more delight--SIR W.JONES, _Ode to Camdeo_.] [Footnote 17: p.4.l.12._Thus of each, O son of Kunti_.

Kunti was the mother of King Yudishthira, to whom the poem is related.

I have usually omitted this address, which is sometimes made to Yudishthira under the title of Bharata, i.e.descendant of Bharata, or other appellations.] [Footnote 18: p.4.l.15._There the swans he saw disporting_.

In the original this is a far less poetic bird, and the author must crave forgiveness for having turned his geese into swans.


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