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They are bright with the wisdom of God, That can wake us from Maya's spell. Let us hold fast to Thy feet, Treading the waves of the world to safety. Oh, drunk with love, God-drunken Lover, In Thee all paths of all yogas meet. Lord of the worlds, Thou art ours, Who wert born a child of our time; Easy of access to us. O Merciful, if we take any hold
It was translated from Hindi to English by Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel Prize-winning author and noted scholar. According to the introduction, by Evelyn Underhill who worked with Tagore on the book, the poems are from the Hindi text of Kshitimohan Sen, who gathered together a large collection of Kabir’s songs from both written and oral ...
Surdas's poetry was written in a dialect of Hindi called Braj Bhasha, until then considered to be a very plebeian language, as the prevalent literary languages were either Persian or Sanskrit. His work raised the status of the Braj Bhasha from a crude language to that of a literary one.
Bṛhatkathā (Sanskrit, "the Great Narrative") is an ancient Indian epic, said to have been written by Guṇāḍhya in a poorly-understood language known as Paiśācī. ...
Doha is a very old "verse-format" of Indian poetry.It is an independent verse, a couplet, the meaning of which is complete in itself. [1] As regards its origin, Hermann Jacobi had suggested that the origin of doha can be traced to the Greek Hexametre, that it is an amalgam of two hexametres in one line.
One Hundred Poems of Tukaram is a first book-length attempt at reproducing the original form of Tukaram's poems viz. abhang into English. As a poetic form, abhang has been explored by all Varkari saints for their poetic expressions. [5] An abhang can be of two types: four-lined stanzaic and two-lined stanzaic. [6]
The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic poem Mahabharata.
Its content is different from the poetry anthologies in the first two volumes. It is an epic poem with a total of 21 chapters and 1,340 verses, titled "Manifestation of Love"; the illustrations in the book are by Rhiti Chatterjee Bose, [7] the female illustrator from Kolkata. The author tells the story of Krishna from birth to death in a new ...