Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-09-04

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IN, moment. and for their proia"it! !" GU
dcayorins 10 tear her from her hold
mart of the guards and kailyal among
them. are precipitated by the falling oil
the bank into the ncighbOring river. Lid
,lurlad however remains. and on INN nc
hanna. (who has previously summoned the
suiri, of his son 10 know what PUNISH
mrpr shall be inflicted on Ladurlad) pours
out his vengeance in this terrible curse:
l charm thy life
From the weapons of strife,
From stone and from wood,
From Are and from flood,
From the serpent'S tooth,
And the beast OF blood:
From sickness charm thee,
AID time snail not harm thee,
But earth, which is mine,
It's fruits Shall deny thee;
And water shall hear Inc,
And know thee and fiv thee,
And the winds shall not touch thee,
When they pass by thee,
And the dews shall Lot wet thee,
When they fail niah thee, Sc &c.
This curse, terrible as it is, is the orr
yin OF all the final happiness OF Aadur-
lad and his daughter, and the progress OF
the poem developes the truth oft motto
=" Curses are like young chickens 'chtch a.
1caus come home to raOst.'
Its first effect is Ladurlad'S rescuing
his daughter from the waters. where the
succeeding morning he discovers her
cIinging to the floating image OF Maria.
tally. After erecting again the image OF
this protecting Deity, they wander on to-
-etker till Ladurlad is induced to with
draw covertly from his daughter. hoping
hat she will thus be less exposed to the
persecution of ke!,ama. kailyai who, IN
all the distraction which we may suppose
her TO have felt at this separation, is
seeking her lost father, is encountered ny
the spirit Of Arvalan. from whom she is
once more delivered by I'ollcrs, the God
Of Traveller 5. bu, faint and breathIess with
apprehension sinks at the foot Of a nan
chineii* under whose poisonous branches
she must have expired but Cor the friendly
aid of glendoyeer Zone Of the immortalsJ
WHO discovers and conveys her to the Sc
vcYsa. or the paradise Of Judra, the God
oethe elements. and though advised by
him of tie power Of Kekama. ard his
interest in kailsai, resolves to protect her
fron, his enn,ity, and bears her with this
intent 10 Mount Meru, another OF the
Hindu paridises.
"In the Indian mythology, prayers.
penances. and sacrifices are supposed to
possess an inherent and actual value in
siependent of the disposition or motive Of
the person who performs them" 1t is
6y such means as taose. that kehama has
become possessed Of his tremendous ma
eical mower. and the day has now arrived
when by the completion of the hundred
asacamcdhas Gan aswamedha is the sacH-
fee of horse) his dominion is to be ex-
tended over the earth and the inisriour
heavens. This is prevented for the pre-
sent by ILadurlad, who being amongst the
croud which attended the ceremony, and
invulnerab!e, from kehama's curse, to the
arrows of the thousand guards, springs
out on sudden, and laying his hands on
the consecrated steed, renders him an un-
fit subject for the sacrifice. Kehama dis
daining to take farther vengeance on Lad
uslad, permits him to go unpunished for
his daring exploit: after visiting his home
and the marriage bower
Rear'd in that happy hour,
When he with fest Joy, and youthful pride
Brought Yediiian home, his beauteous bride,
he is conveyed by the benevolent glendo-
veer to Mount Meru, where he enjoys q
*T,ae manehineal is tree Of so POISONOUS q
quality as to Kill fersons Vcho remain but short
time under its branches.