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in pathos and ethos in the enthralling force and the tenderness of the sentiments.

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who are merely guided by instincts."

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"Here follows 4ie lament of Gandhari which is one of the most


whole epic as the master piece of elogiac poetry,

beautiful parts of the

as well as for the clear description of the battle field recalling the pictures
as a wereschagin. The whole scene becomes so much the more impressive

owing to the fact that the poet does not himself tell the story but lets the
aged mother of heroes recount What she sees with her own eyes."

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"But who ever it was who sang the song of Savitri, whether a Suta
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Brahman, he was certainly one of the greatest poets of all times. Only
a great poet was capable of placing this noble female character before us,

we seem to see her before our eyes. Only a true poet could have
described in such a touching and elevating manner, a victory of T ove and

so that

constancy of virtue and wisdom over destiny and death, whithu at even for
an instant, falling into the tone of the dry preacher of morality; and only
an inspired artist could have produced, as if by magic, such wonderful
pictures befoie us.

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side of her husband

see the deeply distressed woman walking by the


is deemed to death; the husband
mortally ill,

who

wearily laying his head on his wife's lap; the dreadful form of the
of death, who binds the man's soul with fetters and leads it
wife, wrestling with the

God

of death for the

finally tbe happily re-united pair wandering

life

God

away; the
of her husband; and

homewards

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moon

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splendid
setting of a primeval Indian forest whose deep stillness we seem to feel

21
and whose delicious fragrance we seem to breath when

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magic of this imcomparable poem. The poem has frequently been


translated into European languages including German, but all translations
can only give a feeble idea of the incomparable charm of this Indian poem."

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