352 The Birth of Uma— [Juy, 
24. 
And gloriously well, with a daughter so bright 
As seem’d a new orb of pure orient light, 
Did she, the fair mother, herself doubly shine : 
So glows with fresh splendours Vipu’ra’s fam’d mine ; 
When, cleft by electric new clouds’ starting sound, 
Its thunder-struck jewels dart out from their ground. 
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“At this instant, over the protector of his subjects’? (aouéva Aady in Sanscrit) 
‘as with face averted, he expected the dreadful spring of the lion—a shower of 
flowers fell, sent forth from the hands of the celestial Vidyddharas.”’ [This appro- 
bation ended in the sacred cow permitting herself to be milked by the king in a 
leafy pail of that which he most desired,—the gift of offspring to perpetuate the race 
of Raghd, from which the great Rama was to spring. Compare St. 2, supra.] 
Ibid. The mountain-king isnot mentioned in the original of this stanza. But the 
Sthavaras or fied beings peculiarly denoting mountains, their sympathy with their 
king’s joy seemed a proper addition to the mention of their own. 
St. 24. Did she, the fair mother. Some copies, and those not uncommon in 
Bengal and Hindustan, instead of afaqy or mother, have yfray the earth : thus 
instead of the lovely Ména, making the universal mother Earth to shine by so 
beautiful an occupant. A meaning which beside being insipid in itself, utterly 
destroys the spirit of the comparison that follows. The commentaries of Malli- 
natha and Bharata-Mallica prove that they both read Savitri. 
Ibid. Vivu'RA, the Sanscrit for “‘ remote,’’ is also the proper name of a mountain 
said to produce the Japis Jazuli, which is thence called fgeqsy and q a. 
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The curious native treatise on various subjects of natural history, called Calpa- 
yukti,—opens its account of the partxa or test of this precious stone, by the 
following extraordinary lines, which fully illustrate the meaning of Calidasa here, 
PUMA G WARN | AEAyTATAATA 
faseqeifetasry aara | HeTficTfes ests | 
ufast faacy fatuaye na: | 
ATMIGAMAT FT AWTHYAC § UTA II 
AQ ACIHAAAT F ioe 
waaatCaT aa araaafayerm: | 
Tea STATA A AIAST 
wreqaaraccarfaa STEM: 
agacanvar fafauaarera 
awd afasfraestaur syq: |! 
** From a cry of the giant son of Diti, resembling the roaring of the troubled 
ocean -at the close of the Calpa, sprung the variegated vaidiryam (lapis lazuli); 
source of colours of a bright and ravishing splendour, Not. far from the 
declivity of Mount Vidéra, was the mine of that precious stone, but limited 
to particular seasons for its production, and then closed. First from the 
origination of that demon cry, did this mine suddenly spring in the world, 
