1873.] F. S. Growse —A Metrical Version of the Prithiraj Pdsau. 341 
Of diverse talents, diverse theme, 
Are the great lords of song. 
In this passage the only line of any difficulty is the seventh, which 
I translate £ faultless, observant of faults omitting the first word garu, 
which may either represent garv , ‘ pride,’ or he a mis-reading for guru. A 
literal rendering of the last quatrain would he ‘ from first to last what poems 
there have been, their endless (varieties of) style and theme I tell. Count¬ 
less are the hooks : now gather from my poor wit this attempt to describe 
them.’ 
XI. ^ i 
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Tjfa sT^T ^TlT I 
etffa cfri mx i 
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J J 
XI. First I adore the one primeval Lord, 
Who breathed the unutterable, eternal word ; 
Who out of formless chaos formed the earth, 
And all creation, as he willed, had birth. 
Through the three spheres his three-fold glory sped. 
Fiends, gods and men—earth, heaven and hell o’erspread. 
Then the supreme, in Brahma’s form revealed, 
By the four Vedas heaven’s closed gate unsealed. 
How sing the great creator, uncreate, 
Passionless, formless, aye unchanged in state: 
And so on for the remainder of a long paragraph ; which, as it con¬ 
tains nothing of special difficulty, has already been adequately translated, 
and therefore need not be repeated. It does not advance very far in the 
promised poetical catalogue, for after extolling the divine author of the 
XI. The prose translation : 
“First reverencing my first of gods, who uttered the imperishable word Om, 
who mado the formed out of the formless, the will of his mind blossomed and bore 
fruit, the sheen of the three qualities, inhabiting the three worlds, shining on gods in 
heaven, men on earth, serpents in hell. Then in the poom of Brahma leaving the 
Brahma-egg, the lord, the essence of truth, said the four Vedas, the creator uttered 
them unwritten , without qualities, having neither form nor lino. 
