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Art. VII.—Sanskṛit Ode addressed to the Fifth International Congress of Orientalists assembled at Berlin, September, 1881

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Ramā-Bāī
Ramā-Bāī
Affiliation:
of Silchar, Kāchār, Assam
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Noble-minded and learned Sirs! may health and prosperity be ever present with you! Kindly receive the expression of my homage and devotion. O men of knowledge, the ancient Sanskṛit language is at the present day like an aged mother shorn of her beauty and bereft of her ornaments. For a long time, alas! she has remained unhonoured, and now flees to you well-disposed scholars for protection. In the sharpness of her grief she laments with a heart-rending cry of pain. Listen attentively, that her feeble cry of suffering may enter your ears.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1882 , pp. 66 - 73
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1882

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page 70 note 1 Ghaṛī-yantra may also mean a clock.