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Zife and Writings of Fatlier BescM, 



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Appendix No. 1 — Specimen of Father Beschi's Poem, quoted hy Mr. 

 Ellis in his translation of the Cural; together with some few additional 

 translations of the same poem from my late publication entitled the Padigam, 



ON THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. 

 Vide Ellis's Cural, page 23. 



Vira-mamuni, by which title the Rev. C. J. Beschi is best known as a 

 Tamil author, in the 27th book, ^rru<SLjui—(soil>, of his epic poem the 

 Tembavani, commencing with the 1.56th and ending with the 163d 

 verse, introduces Joseph, the husband of St. Mary, explainiug the attri- 

 butes of the Deity : of these I shall quote only the two first, as the re- 

 maining six contain merely the separate illustration of each attribute, 

 of which a shorter and, therefore, more perspicuous explanation will he 

 given from another work. To each verse of this poem the author has 

 added a prosaic gloss, frequently expanding into a comment, from which, 

 as affording a fuller view of the subject than the text, the translation is 

 made. 



fF/Slei)^m-es>LDjS(S<fipQjQ LQ/r/f(^eio pQpp 



«F /r p ^ ^ /1j S3T Q <s= /r (SI) /r 0) on Qj (? UJ . 



OiEim' j£liiss^ iressrQ L-.0\ueu^ili eu essr ikj s ^ O louj^s L-.eijLL.(^i{iuj 

 ui[r(2)^(^<5ssriL^[r (? lq - ^^Qeu irrrsaO^sfrti^Q Q'ietrfi^ueoOsmhLi<s 

 e^^p<memLCiiUfr(sS£(^^^es>^sSlif\^^ ^CsO/tt OLoajujfresrQ^Qj^ser 



Q jDeuQm-Qujmcn) !reup^Q(c(rtr€sr(n)aSl ^ih^ssip^ O ^ eO ed rr en p p tij 

 io &) IT ^ eu ^ Q/DQJ ear eOeoOesr^(fr) a- ^smsiurreOefrsS p^^^^^eir (^/fl 

 iu'iesr<se)LniurrOeOQp^(^pQu[r<sO ^/r^OLD«ffruysm-O<F/r«)«0/r6D^ C^oi/r 



IB (su uj ^ O ^ Q) ci) /r ^ SI) (T/i err ^ /r ^ 0? 



