1878.] 
F. S. Growse —Mathura Notes. 
127 
but probably many successive copies have been made since the original was 
thumbed to pieces. The first stanzas which are rather prettily worded, 
are, or at least profess to be, the composition of the famous blind poet Sur 
Das. 
II ^ II 
'?rr*w n 
^ I >sq ju i 
fqq mz qf n 
qq qpfl« qsqsq? fqqn ffiT i 
quu q;%if qfi wt n 
firT Ht iqiU: 3TT J^TT =fiT m q\U »T<C I 
qi^q qtq q^q? q^rrfi sisw sit ii 
qrsiT <q» Tqin wr i fawq *ir i 
w: qf?w f%qqw qg qiq< sf n 
Translation. 
“ Thy ways are past knowing, full of compassion, Supreme Intelli¬ 
gence, unapproachable, unfathomable, beyond the cognizance of the senses, 
moving in fashion mysterious. 
“ A lion, most mighty in strength and courage, dies of hunger ; a snake 
fills his belly without labour and without exertion. 
“ Now a straw sinks in the water, now a stone floats : he plants an 
ocean in the desert, a flood fills it all round. 
“ The empty is filled, the full is upset, by his grace it is filled again ; 
the lotus blossoms from the rock and fire burns in the water. 
“ A king becomes a beggar and again a beggar a king, with umbrella 
over his head; even the guiltiest (says Sur Das) in an instant is saved, if 
the Lord helps him the least.” 
The second piece, in a somewhat similar strain, is by Damodar Das. 
