Cowshalya : princess of Koshala, chief queen of Dasharatha.
... dam That follows still her ravished young." Thus she Yearning upon her own beloved son; — As over her offspring chained a centauress Impatient of her anguish deep, so wailed Cowshalya; for her heart with grief was loud. The Wife 1 But Sita all the while, unhappy child, Worshipped propitious gods. Her mind in dreams August and splendid coronations dwelt And... blamelessly Thy lonely seasons. With the dawn arise And when thou hast adored the Gods, bow down Before King Dussaruth, my father, then Like a dear daughter tend religiously Cowshalya, my afflicted mother old; Nor her alone, but all my father's queens Gratify with sweet love, smiles, blandishments And filial claspings; — they my mothers are, Nor than the breasts ...
... maternal; his works both dramatic and epic give us many powerful & emotional expressions of the love of father & child to which there are few corresponding outbursts of maternal feeling. Valmekie's Cowshalya has no parallel in Kalidasa. Yet he expresses the true Page 230 sentiment of motherhood with sweetness & truth if not with passion. Ayus & Urvasie in this play were certainly not intended ...
... forty-one of Vidyapati's songs * In his earlier drafts and publications of the Baroda period, Sri Aurobindo spelt Indian proper names in their Bengali way of pronunciation: Yudhishthere, Arjoon, Cowshalya, Dussaruth, Himaloy, Menoca, etc., but I have usually given the current spelling so as not to cause undue puzzlement to the readers. Page 72 also came out in the same year. It is ...
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