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heard this, but, not choosing to discover himself Bhavabhuti:- :01 af rata in public, merely wrote on a wall the other
नाभी कुर्वन्निखिलजगतीनाटिकासूत्रधारम् half
तल्पे तादृक्प्रदपरिमला सारगर्भधिरङ्गम् बाले तवं मुखाम्भोजे कथमिंदीवरद्वयम्.
निद्रा मुद्रा रसमभिनयन्नीलिमा कश्चिदिन्धे. His mistress read the complete verse, and Dandin :-
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a raft wishing to appropriate the prize to herself, and
पाथोराशितपःफलेन महसा कैनापि भूषावती to gain the credit of having completed the verse,
रंगे तुंगभुजंगपुंगववपु : पर्यङमासेदुषी was tempted to kill her lover, thus fulfilling
निद्रा मुद्रितलोचना विजयते मुद्रा मुरद्रोहिणी. the curse pronounced upon Kalidasa by the
On another occasion, a learned paņdit named princess.
Damaruka, came to the court of the king, and Kalidasa was a great traveller, as appears
challenged the pandits to complete a verse, the from his correct krowledge of places as de
first line of which wasscribed in his poem of the Megha-duta. Once
अंभोधिर्जलधिः पयोधिरुदधिर्वारनिधिर्वारिधिः it happened that Kalidasa, Bhavabhuti, and
None could do it but Kalidasa, who added the Dandin travelled together on a pilgrimage to
following lines :Sri-Rangapuri, near Trichinâ palli, to see
अंबा कुप्यनि तात मूर्ध्नि विधृता गंगेयमुत्सृज्यताम् the shrine of Sri Ranganatha, or Vishnu lying
विद्वन्धण्मुख संतनं मयि रता तस्या गतिः का बद। on Sesha. Each of them composed in honour of the deity a verse characteristic of his own
कोपाटोपवशाद्विववदनः प्रत्युसर दत्तवान् ।
Such is the account of Kalidasa handed down peculiar style :
by 799, i.e. by a line of preceptors to pupils, Kalidasa :- **4*** TH gt:
and generally current in Mhaisur (Mysore). आशा मौलिकिरीटरत्ननिकरैः पाशायुधीयामपि I am indebted for it to Pandit Ramanujâchůrya,
Sanskrit Teacher in the Indor High School, पर्य) पवमानतूलभरिते पारे कवेरात्मजम्
who had it from his preceptor, the late Sajja451 45197 1927 Steará T. yacharya, the well-known rhetorician of Mysore."
FATHER THOMAS ESTEVAO, S.J.
BY F. M. MASCARENHAS: According to Father Francis de Sousa, S.J. College, Oxford. On the 4th April 1579 he (Oriente Conquistado, tom. II. p. 29), Father Estevao sailed from Lisbon, and the following October (Stephens, or Stevens) was a native of London, and reached Goa, where he lived many years. A letter according to the Rev. Theodore Hauser, S.J. which he wrote to his father, a London merchant, (Bombay Catholic Examiner, No. 43, 1875), Father soon after his arrival, is printed in Hakluyt's Estevaõ was born in Wiltshire. His father, Thomas | Collection of Voyages. It contains not only a par. Stevens, was a London merchant, and sent him ticular and interesting description of his perilous for his studies to New College, Oxford. In the navigation round the Cape, but many sage reyear 1575 he was in the noviciate of the Society of marks are made in quite a mercantile spirit on the Jesus at St. Andrew's in Rome, where he spent state of Portuguese trade, of which he evidently four years; during the two last he was most desires that his countrymen should obtain a share. probably engaged in the study of philosophy. The reader is surprised to find a Roman ecclesiasF. Estevao was sent to Goa, which he reached tie entering with such eagerness and penetration on the 24th October 1579. "Thomas Stephens," into commercial affairs. Probably Stephens' adsays the Rev. Philip Anderson (History of the vices were the strongest inducements which Settlement of the English in Western India, pp. 6, London merchants had been offered to embark in 7), “is the first Englishman of whom we are Indian speculations, and certainly they began from sure that he visited the western shores of India. this period to fit out expeditions for the East." When there he was only known as a Jesuit, "The narrative of his travels," says Dr. Pope but he had been originally educated at New (Text-Book of Indian History, p. 244), “excited
. Conf. Monier Williams, Wisdom of the Hindus, p. 361, Dji in the sixth. Soe M. Williams, Wisdom of the Hinnote.-ED.
dus, pp. 474, 75, and Conf. Trans. Internat. Cong. Orient. LABeen and Monier Williams place Kalidhan in the third 1874. p. 254; Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. vol. VI. pp. 19. century A.D., Weber in the third or sixth, and Dr. Bhau 207, Lassen, Alterth II. 1167 (or 2nd ed. 1170).-ED.
