Horu Thakur : Harekrishna Deerghangi (1738-1813), renowned Kaviāl – title of versifiers or poets of Bengal who compose & recite poems impromptu. He learnt composing from a weaver & gained great influence as consummate Kaviāl in some royal courts. In old age he became court-poet of Navakishan Dev of Shobhabazar Raj. Sakhi-Samvād & Premer Kobitā are outstanding among his works [s/a Navakishan].
... any tongue. 10 Two of Sri Aurobindo's renderings from Chandidas are included in Songs to Myrtilla and one more in a later collection. These three, along with selections from Nidhu Babu, Horu Thakur and Jnanadas (in all 37 pieces) came out in 1956, with the Bengali text facing the English version. Likewise forty-one of Vidyapati's songs * In his earlier drafts and publications of the Baroda... run? It is, of course, humourless to comment on songs that effortlessly sing themselves out, - songs whose sentiment is sugar and honey, - songs whose theme is Love. In the pieces from Horu Thakur, again, while love human is the exquisitely embroidered theme, the underlying symbolic meaning shows itself even without the explicit prose comment prefixed to them. The Gopis are quite obviously... My body almost swooned away And from my heart went fear and shame And maiden pride; panting I lay; He was around me like a flame. 22 Chandidas, Vidyapati, Nidhu Babu, Horu Thakur, Jnanadas - they are five notes out of which Sri Aurobindo makes, in his 'transcreations', one song, one orchestrated symphony on the theme of Love Divine in the more familiar images of universal ...
... 68,273-4,282,384; marriage, 65ff; on Translations, 68; use of Hexameter, 71, 626-7; on bhakti poetry, 72-3, 505-6; translations from Chandidas, 72; from Vidyapati, 74; from Nidhu Babu, 74; from Horu Thakur, 76; from Jnanadas, 76; on Bande Mataram, 76; translation from Dwijendralal, 77; Sagar, Sangit, tr. of, 77ff, 411; on Vyasa & Valmiki, 79ff; tr. from the Ramāyāna, 8 1ff; from the Mahabharata, 84ff; ...
... As moonbird seeks the moon, she seeks his kisses, Liberal of nectar he yearns down above her. In search of the Devine Lover Page 182 Selected poems of Horu Thakur Look, Lolita, the stream one loves so And water brings each day! But what is this strange light that moves so, In Jamouna today? What is it shining, heaving ...
... ye would guard your weal and your good fame, then take me forth to his city of Dwaraka of high mansion and decorated turrets; and leave me there. Page 173 Translations Bengali - Horu - Thakur 4 VII The soul longs for reunion with God, without whom the sweetnesses of love and life are vain. All day and night in lonely anguish wasting The heart's wish to the lips ...
... entitled, 'Love-mad' composed by Nammalwar) Two poems are from the famous saint-poetess, Andal. They are entitled, 'I dreamed a dream' and 'Ye Others'. Page 50 Another poem is from Horu Thakur, a Bengali saint where he describes the longing of the soul for reunion with God, without whom the sweetnesses of love and life are vain. Another poem is from Vidyapati where he describes the beauty ...
... Highet, Gilbert 383,384,411,412,414 Hodgson, Ralph 367 Homer 53-55,265,267,319,320,370,381, 383,384,387,398,399,401 Hopkins, G.M. 75,98,314,368,455 Horu Thakur 45 Housman, A.H. 56 Hugo, Victor 377 Human Cycle, The 38,56,293,359,459 Huxley, Julian 37 Page 494 ...
... sweeter than you all. 101 At Baroda naturally his interests first hovered round Sanskrit and Bengali poetry Renderings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, from Chandidas, Vidyapati, Horu Thakur, Nidhu Babu and others, from Bhartrihari, from the Sagar-Sangit of C.R. Das, from the Vedas and the Upanishads, from Bankim Chandra and Dwijendralal Roy— all these make for both variety and volume ...
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