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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems

BOOK XXVI
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_--in the satyr-haunted wood_.

Swapada, dog-footed: the dog is an unclean animal in India.

As the goat-footed, the 'capripedes satyri' in Greece, I have thought the satyr not so exclusively Greek but that it might be used for any "wild man of the woods." The word is also derived from 'swan, a dog,' and 'apad, to resemble,' and is explained by Mr.Wilson, ferocious, savage.] [Footnote 73: p.32.l.21.

_--uttered loud her curse of wrath_.

The power of a curse, according to Indian belief, will be best illustrated to the reader of English poetry by "the Curse of Kehama." In the "Death of Yajnadatta," included in this volume, we find the effects of a Brahmin's curse described.] [Footnote 74: p.33.l.5._Trees of every form and stature_.


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