348 The Birth of Uméd— [Juny, 
In bands of strict friendship, alone scap’d the blow 
Aim’d full at each mountain by Vrirra’s stern foe. 
Their wings were all clipt by the Thund’rer’s fierce ire, 
But his, the fell bolt left unscath’d and entire. 
been published at Serampore or Bonn, may be given entire, with a translation in 
correspondiug Anustup measure. 
The Monkey chief Hanuman, son of Pavana or Maruta (the Indian Zolus), while 
springing over the strait to Lanca, is accosted from below by Mainaca, begging 
him to alight, and partake of rest and refreshment from his hospitality. After some 
dialogue upon this,—Hanuman at length expresses astonishment at Mainaca’s 
condition in these words, and receives the following reply : 
AAZAIAVY AAAI | 
ee Se ~ e 
fa aueasre Mara fraer afe aree 
CARA! Wet a Ga: VATA: | 
TYAN VAM WaT Wa aH TS | 
Es 
Ware: YU yg: etwas: | 
auf a far: sar aestfaaces: | 
ACSI aaa CTI_T HSI: | 
wats ewe SVE VATA II 
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ad: AS ULI Gaal Aa | 
Waifeae sAu aa wa WAT! Il 
OAT: Hal THAT Saris | 
Tass Vea faa Wate Bea Il 
wfaa wawara 4 fait ararcay | 
Tale: wae aa foarfacfaa: 1 
Hanuma'n,—In Ocean’s boundless waste, o’erspread 
With huge sea-monsters crowding nigh, 
Why hid’st thou thus thy wave-merg’d head ? 
Tell me, sage Mountain, tell me why. 
Marna’ca.—Erst, mighty chief, on wings forth flew, 
Free through all space, the Mountain bands, 
Swift as the bird that bears Vishnu, 
Or heaven’s loud blast that scours the lands. 
But as they soar’d aloft, strange fears 
Did Rishis, gods and men surprise, 
Dreading their fall ; and heaven’s King rears 
His bolt,—fierce lord of thousand eyes. 
Then fell from thousand hills’ sides low 
The wings by vivid lightnings cleft. 
But me, while yet the bolt-arm’d foe 
Drew nigh,—unnerv’d, of hope bereft,— 
