The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-05-19

GOVlnta on tne love OF krlSnma ltne HIN
doc ApOllo) and Radha. Ajeeb gave them
the ounce Of gold asked, and said to the
bayaderes that the love Of Krishma had
fructihed India, and also that the history
q love of the god and Radha was too long
TO be listened to by an agonizing man.
all those offers he was losing a great deal
more than by accepting them, but the idea
Of being noar his dissolution upset his
reasoning He felt no inclination towards
any thing. Ajeeb, at the second hour Of
his life was bothered to death.
"Brahma!' exclaimed he, yawning con-
vulsively. "Brahma! how long is lifei
am not astonished IL thou hast incarnated
thyself ten-fold in order to kill time"
This exclamation uttered. Ajeeb felt his
before the temple Of Ten Tauli, which has
two .porticos, and Is quoted a. one of the
mafvels of Flora. He sat down on the tail
Of monkey, in the shadow Of the OF
Mandy, both animals cut out of block In
. quarry of granite, and lazily he ate few
betel nuts. His glances thrown obliquely
towards heaven, revealed to him painful
thing; Ajeeb had to pass only tweD&Y
hours more on this earth before being
struck on the forehead by the black Yams,
" Thssn ZEN H he ADOPTED adopted the last rs,ouros of
those that tediousness kills-he stretched
himself on the sand and fell asleep, and
had beautiful dream. He believed he
saw or better, he did see, BudrAh, the god
Of death, opening for him the blue gates of
ticOs, made Of precious stones, conduct to
the Garden Mendana, inhabited by baya-
deres. silva, the most powerful OF all the
gods said to him:
"Aieeb, as you have been just and chart
of the Maidive islands; they are twelve
thousand in number, and are situated at
the entrance of the Arabic gulf. All of
them have caves of pearls and coral In
each one 10 q queen, handsome as Latch
thousand queens shall be your wives, and
and you shall have floating harem more
beautiful than the one of the great Sevadjy,
the father Of the Mahratta's empire" In
his dream Ajeeb came down from Heaven
through q stair Of gold and indigo: When
discovered his kingdom, that resembled
twelve thousand shells, resting on the sur
face Of the sea under numberless eyrets of
palm trees. Landing, 1t seemed to him
that the Orient sang a heavenly symphony
by dividing itself twelve thousand-fold in
streams of a JOYOUS and bright azure. With
the swiftness Of motion given by dreams
Ajeeb went from one island to another, and
in each Of them he saw glittering two large
eyes under the ringlets of head of hair
black az ebony and face sweet and gilded
as Radha's.
Dreams are mysterious things which
cause us to forget the hour and space, so
Ajech awaking had in his remembrance
several wears Of happiness passed with his
twelve thousand queens in the Arabian
gulf among pearl, coral, amber and gold; I;
he found himself In the shadow of the on
Mandy before the temple of Flora. Ac-
cording to his astronomical observations
he had slept eight hours and but for hid
eous serpent that bit him he would have
added many years to his fantastica1 happi-
ness in the Maldiye Islands
Signing, Ajeeb said to himself: II have
but twelve hours to live, and swear that
| am exceedingly embarrassed with my ex-
istence. have twelve centuries before me.
II it was not through fear to displease silva,
l would go and throw myself on the rock
down below. in order to be relieved from
the burden of those twelve hours, which are
killing me under their weight At least, If
could sleep again until the end Of my
days, that will come with the next sun,
would see again my kingdom and my ha-
rem Of queens in the mirror of Che gulf but
alas when the natural need of sleep will
return to me shall be dead! Oh! it is
surely now that understand the mysteries
pleasures lasting few minutes and uncon-
tested troubles and sorrows, lasting forev-
or. The best part of our life is the sleeping
ono. II the celestial India, If the blue god
granted me third life, l would accept it.
solely on the condition of sleeping always"
to pronounce it syllable by syllable. with
an affected slowliness for the purpose of
gaining a few minutes OH the eternal twelve
hours forming the balance of his existence,
he saw the bonze Of the great pagoda OF
Nagnur, who had just descended from his
elephant to kneel before the temple of Des
Arantara or Ten Incarnations. The bonze
of Nagpur was named Dhealy: he had left
Bherar, the rich capital, with his retinue of
jemadars of both sexes, to visit the penin-
L. ka fnd f<N n
quer the most renowned chess players of
Hindostan. Ajeeb prostrated himself be-
fore him and said: "Ray of the Seventh
head of silva. you who are. present in the
councils of India, and who has rendered
harmless the anger Of knanta, the eternal
serpent, teach me the secret of passing ten
hours without being devoured by tedious
ness"
'Do you ask the aim Of . distraction
from me" replied the bonze.
II ask It on my knees, Star OF Nsgpur'"
''Shegmadid, the glorious architect of the
temples of Flora, who has been raised to
the dignity Of god, and who travels the
blue Ornament on the chariot of Suriah,
has commanded the bronzes to give alms
orders. | consent to play five games OF
chess with you. that is to say, will give
you ten hours Of voluptuousness to render
Jealous the chaste goddess Sista:"
Ajeeb opened wide his big, black eyes
and his face took the expression of . deep
great deal worse than the disease and mutt
tered some unintelligible words that the
bOnze interpreted as no expression of deep
gratitude for the pleasure promised. Ajeeb
was perhaps the only Hindoo In this learned
century that did not know how to play
chess. and he had forgotten in his dream
of the Maldive Islands that the goddess
Sursutee, when she had granted him an
other day of life had also given him an
universal science, adapting itself to any
thing. 1t was only when seated before the
chess-boaid that Ajeeb felt In himself the
intelligence of q chess player and the spCn-
taneous revelations Of the most compli-
Gated combinations
A iemadar had taken out the bonze's
chess board aud pieces from a box tied
around the elephants neck as an honorable
decoration 1t was . marvellous chess
board and pieces. The most skillful
Chinese workman had passed ESQ 1t was
said) seven years to construct and carve
this masterpiece of work OF ivory, nacre,
pearl and ebony. The black king was the
perfect likeness Of the monarch reigning
Sing, the lion shepherd, emblematic desig-
nation Of the courage and kindness pos
sessed by that sovereign. The white King
was the living picture OF the magnani-
nous Fo-Hi, the venerable Emperor Of
China, the potentate agriculturist, who had
invented two shrubs and three flowers
through wonderful work of matching and
graft. The sixteen pawns OF ivory and
ebony were carved with the most exquisite
taste: Their little eyes .shone like car.
buncses; they put their left foot forwsd
and aimed with an arrow of nacre resting
on 6iigrane of gold. Bonze Dhealy had
won this chess board and pieces In tourn: