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Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, by Toru Dutt
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Title: Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
Author: Toru Dutt
Contributor: Gosse Edmund
Release Date: October 29, 2007 [EBook #23245]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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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. Dhruv