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OBEISANCE
B. K. KHADABADI
Here at Sravaṇabe!goļa in the South of Karnatak, On mount Vindhya of far antique fame, Look! There stands for the past thousand years, Lord Gommateśvara all alone, in profound meditation !
Here He stands as the silent proclaimer as it were Of Gommațarāya's signal service to Jinadharma! He, the living emblem of the enlivening art of sculpture of massive medieval India !
Who can gauge the depth of His silence ? Or rather read easily the mystery of His smile? Who can scale the acme of His satiety ? Or rather reach the bounds of His self-denial ?
Many a man and woman- Indian and foreign, Move here daily and gape at the wonder of the world! They but later return serene and musing With their passions stilled there and there alone!
Once but in twelve years for Lord Gommateśvara Is held the peerless Holy Great Bath With varied pitchers- of molten gold and silver too! And reminds us of the Rāya's egotism once then annulled
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