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Title: Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

Author: Toru Dutt

Contributor: Edmund Gosse

Release Date: October 29, 2007 [EBook #23245]

Language: English

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_ANCIENT BALLADS
AND LEGENDS
OF HINDUSTAN_

BY

TORU DUTT

AUTHOR OF "A SHEAF GLEANED IN FRENCH FIELDS," AND
"LE JOURNAL DE MADEMOISELLE D'ARVERS."

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR
BY EDMUND GOSSE.

[Illustration]

LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO.
MDCCCLXXXV

"I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not
my heart moved, more than with a trumpet: and yet it is sung but by
some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style."

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Archaic
spellings have been retained. Punctuation has been normalised. The
oe ligature has been transcribed as [oe].

CONTENTS.

Page

I. Savitri 1
II. Lakshman 46
III. Jogadhya Uma 54
IV. The Royal Ascetic and the Hind 65
V. Dhruva 71
VI. Buttoo 77
VII. Sindhu 89
VIII. Prehlad 107
IX. Sita 122

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Near Hastings 127
France--1870 129
The Tree of Life 131
On the Fly Leaf of Erc