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Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Pride and Heroism

Mainak

O child of the immortal mountains hoar,

Mainak,1 far better had this been to bear

The bleeding wings that furious Indra tore,

The thunder’s scars that with disastrous roar

Vomiting lightnings made the heavens one flare,–

Not, not this refuge in the cool wide sea

While all thy suffering people cried to thee.

 

1 The mountains had formerly wings and could move about, — to the great inconvenience of everybody: Indra, attacked by them, smote off their wings with the thunderbolt. Mainak, son of Himalay, took refuge in the sea.

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