[43] A sacred range of mountains lying along the Himalaya chain
immediately adjacent to Kailasa, the paradise of Kuvera, the god of
wealth.
[44] According to the mythical geography of the Hindoos the earth
consisted of seven islands surrounded by seven seas.
BALLADS OF HINDOSTAN
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
BY
TORU DUTT
INTRODUCTION
If Toru Dutt were alive, she would still be younger than any recognized
European writer, and yet her fame, which is already considerable, has
been entirely posthumous. Within the brief space of four years which now
divides us from the date of her decease, her genius has been revealed to
the world under many phases, and has been recognized throughout France
and England. Her name, at least, is no longer unfamiliar in the ear of
any well-read man or woman. But at the hour of her death she had
published but one book, and that book had found but two reviewers in
Europe. One of these, M. Andre Theuriet, the well-known poet and
novelist, gave the "Sheaf gleaned in French Fields" adequate praise in
the "Revue des Deux Mondes"; but the other, the writer of the present
notice, has a melancholy satisfaction in having been a little earlier
still in sounding the only note of welcome which reached the dying
poetess from England.
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