Excerpt from The Sacontala: Or the Fatal Ring Their publick assemblies, on an infinite variety of subjects, and in various dialects of India this definition gave me no very distinct idea; but I concluded that they were dialogues on moral or literary topicks whilst other Europeans, whom I consulted, had understood from the natives that they were discourses on dancing, musick, or poetry. At length a very sensible Brahmen, named Radhacant, who had long been attentive to English manners, removed all my doubts, and gave me no ...
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Excerpt from The Sacontala: Or the Fatal Ring Their publick assemblies, on an infinite variety of subjects, and in various dialects of India this definition gave me no very distinct idea; but I concluded that they were dialogues on moral or literary topicks whilst other Europeans, whom I consulted, had understood from the natives that they were discourses on dancing, musick, or poetry. At length a very sensible Brahmen, named Radhacant, who had long been attentive to English manners, removed all my doubts, and gave me no less delight than surprise, by telling me that our nation had compositions of the same sort, which were publickly represented at Calcutta in the cold season, and bore the name, as he had been informed, of plays. Resolving at my leisure to read the best of them, I asked which of their Natacs was most universally esteemed; and he answered without hesitation, Sacontala, support ing his opinion, as usual among the Pandits, by a couplet to this effect: The ring of Sacontala, in which the fourth act, and four stanzas of that act, are eminently brilliant, displays all the rich exuberance of Calidasa's genius. I soon pro cured a correct copy of it and, assisted by my teacher Ramalochan, began with translating it verbally into Latin, which bears so great a re semblance to Sanscrit, that it is more conve nient than any modern language for a scrupulous interlineary version: I then turned it word for word into English, and afterwards, without ad ding or suppressing any material sentence, dis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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