Parabels of Mahavir

Author(s): Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Shri Kiran Publishers

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MAHAVIR And now I am alone. With nobody to call my own : The whole world trembles on the verge of me And shivers to an Echo in the distance : Existence lo ! hath passed beyond Existence !
( the stage grows dark. Dundhubhis blare )
IN THE HOUSE OF SOM
SOM'S WIFE You are the laziest creature Time ever conceived and gave birth to..
SOM
Woman! there is a song which comes back to me; a song I heard when my mother gave birth to me; at least, a song I heard when I was old enough to receive it with my ears turned sensitive to notes of music and words of
poets,
SOM'S WIFE Were you ever sensitive ? was any pore or cell of your body ever ever sensitive ?