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USAN IRUDDHA
sprout into compositions.
a series of creeper like literary
The basic function of words in any language (or writing) is to convey a correct understanding of ideas. Would it therefore matter much to the wise whether the words are Sanskrit or Prakrit ?
Men of genius would not feel any jealousy towards men like me who are dullards. The lions roar back to the thunder of clouds and not to the croaking of frogs.
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I have written a poem on a minor theme like Uşāniruddha in which Krsna— the Lord of Yadus-- is a major figure. Any literary work where Vāsudeva is described (or presented) fails to give complete satisfaction to its listeners, although heard again and again.
Having been born in the ocean-born race of Yadu, the Lord Visnu made the worlds lustrous by the glory of his heroic deeds, bright like the moonlight.
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From whom met their destruction the warriors of the Lord of demons (Kamsa), viz., Pralamba, Keśin and others (just as easily) as the masses of pitchy darkness are dispelled by the sun with his irresistible lustre.
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(Krsna) who had pulled from (the flesh of the mother) Earth the thorn, Kamsa, that had caused her considerable pain and healed it by the soothing unguent of Dharma.
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Who founded on the sea the city of Dvārakā with countless golden mansions, an abode of abundant
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