Indian Antiquary Vol 58

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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DEOMOTIR, 1929
A LIPE OF NANE BISHI
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A LIFE OF XAND RISHI. BY PANDIT ANAND KOUL, PARSTVENT, SRINAGAR MUNICIPALITY (RETIRED).
(Continued from page 198.) Zai Ded then asked him what she should do with the children. He told her to take them home for that night. She obeyed. At night they all slept, but in the morning they were found dead. The poor mother wept and beat ber breast. When Nand Risbi came to know of this, he grieved and said
Adana teajim agăţalis,
Ketha nah ditsomak anit loz? Sartal sapazam sunah kanawalis !
Buh suta mális meh no kunh! Kydh karzi tapas táwas tah analas !
Samayas nish kenh tagum nah wutsh; Wasi karnam pahali khelis!
Bu nita malis meh no lunh! I, a fool, erred in the beginning;
Why did I not earn sufficient money for them! My golden earring turned into brass !
I am son to my father; to me there is none ! Wbat avails sunsbine, warmtb and fire ?
Against time I could not strive ; My flook is soattered!
I am son to my fatber; to me there is none ! Nand Rishi, however, thanked God that He had freed him from anxiety about the children. Zai Ded also, finding all her family ties severed, renounoed the world and became a bermitess. When she died she was buried at Kaimuh village.
Nand Rishi dwelt in this cave for about twelve years, eating nothing except endive and upalhal. Once his mother, Sadr Maji, visited him and asked him sorrowingly how he was living on these bitter herbs. He replied
Yus swdd upalhakas tah hande
Suh swdd soma-ras grende tedu. Dud trávit poni yus mande
Suh samsáras kenh no záv. Par tah pán yus huihi vende
Suh bhavah Sindhe tarit gav. The taste of upalhak and endive,
That taste is reckoned as Soma juice. He who, leaving milk, churns water,
He, so to speak, oame not into this world. He who considers another person and himself equal
He has crossed the Sindh (River) of the world. Once Nand Rishi was going on an excursion towards Veri Nag. He reached a village called Hillar, near Achhabal, where he found a man performing penances in the hollow of a tree, which he had himself dug out. Nand Rishi frowned at him for cutting a hole for himself in the trunk of the tree, thus spoiling it. He told him that he ought to bave lived in a cave