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.

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 atrumpet: and yet it is sung but by some blinde crowder,with no rougher voice, than rude style."

Sir Philip Sidney.


CONTENTS.

Page
I.Savitri1
II.Lakshman46
III.Jogadhya Uma54
IV.The Royal Ascetic and the Hind65
V.Dhruva71
VI.Buttoo77
VII.Sindhu89
VIII.Prehlad107
IX.Sîta122
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
Near Hastings127
France—1870129
The Tree of Life131
On the Fly Leaf of Erckmann-Chatrian's
     novel entitled Madame Thérèse
133
Sonnet—Baugmaree135
Sonnet—The Lotus136
Our Casuarina Tree137

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TORU DUTT.

INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.

If Toru Dutt were alive, she would still beyounger than any recognized European writer,and yet her fame, which is already considerable,has been entirely posthumous. Withinthe brief space of four years which nowdivides us from the date of her decease, hergenius has been revealed to the world undermany phases, and has been recognizedthroughout France and England. Her name,

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