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G. A. Grierson— Twenty-one Vaishnava Hymns. 
[Sp. No. 
Translation 20. 
1. My beloved brought the jasmine of love. He watered it with 
the ambrosia of his voice, and clothed it with flowers. 
2. The flowers blossomed, and the nectar exuded therefrom, but 
the bee, whom I trusted, went away and lived in a far country. 
3. In the first place I am smitten by fate, and the Creator hath 
prevaricated with me. In the second place my beloved is afar ofl, and 
my bosom is empty. 
4. The splendour of the autumn moon is spread abroad. My mind 
has become the cJiakor,^ and therefore it glided towards him. 
5. Chakrapani saith, now, on an auspicious day, the bee and the 
jasmine have met. 
XXI. 
Harkhnath. 
The following song is different from the others. It is by Harkh- 
nath the principal living poet of Mithila, a selection from whose poems 
was published in my Maithil Chrestomathy. 
The eleventh of the songs then published was a Soliar or congratu¬ 
latory birth-song describing the birth of Krishna. I have since ascer¬ 
tained that this was only a portion of the whole, and I now take this 
opportunity of printing the song as it was originally written by the poet. 
■ JiKSifi gif ^ i 
t II 
tiffcT 3IK5ICI %T?: ist I 
^ ^ j 
api iig =55^ 11 
sf?; fisti ^553 t II 
51^ 5|5T S’? I 
SfillS ^ 11^51 11 
l%SW5t snr ^ ii 
siara jrf^3 'aisi i 
51^ s?; CTJ ^ SR II 
sfsf STPt?i sfcn ^ I 
* A bird supposed to be enamoured of the full moon. 
