Peri : Persian supernatural female comparable to apsarā or fairy.
... ANICE My parents sold me In the great famine. IBN SAWY What, is your mould indeed a thing of earth? Peri, have you not come disguised from heaven To snare us with your lovely smiles, you marvel? ANICE I am a slave and mortal. IBN SAWY Prove me that. ANICE A Peri, sir, has wings, but I have none. IBN SAWY I see that difference only. Well now, her price? MUAZZIM... Morning so early? This moment 'twas the evening star; is that The matin lustre? NUREDDENE There is a star at watch beside the moon Waiting to see you ere it leave the skies. Is it your sister Peri? ANICE It is our star And guards us both. NUREDDENE It is the star of Anice, The star of Anice-aljalice who came From Persia guided by its silver beams Into these arms of vagrant Nureddene... AZIZ She was new then and untouched. 'Tis the way with goods, broker; they lose value by time and purchase, use and soiling. MUAZZIM Oh, sir, the kissed mouth has always honey. But this is a Peri and immortal lips have an immortal sweetness. AJEBE Five hundred to that bid. Enter Almuene with Slaves. ALMUENE ( to himself ) Ah, it is true! All things come round at last With ...
... writes: "The whole question has been fully discussed by V. A. Smith in EHI. pp. 328 ff. Takakusu held that Vasubandhu lived from about 420 to 500 A.D. (JRAS. 1905, pp. 43 ff). Against this M. Peri maintained (BEFEO.XI, 339 ff.) that Vasubandhu lived in the fourth century A.D. and died soon after the middle of that century. This view is generally accepted. Takakusu opposed it and reaffirmed ...
... Incomplete Narrative Poems (Circa 1899-1902) Collected Poems Khaled of the Sea an Arabian Romance Prologue–Alnuman and the Peri Canto I–The Story of Alnuman and the Emir's Daughter Canto II–The Companions of Alnuman 1 Canto III–The Companions of Alnuman 2 Canto IV–The Companions of Alnuman 3 Canto V–The First Quest of the Sapphire... X–The Journey of the Green Oasis Canto XI–The Journey of the Irremeable Ocean Canto XII–The Journey of the Land without Pity Epilogue–The Arabian and the Caliph Prologue Alnuman and the Peri In Bagdad by Euphrates, Asia's river, Euphrates that through deserts must deliver The voices which of human daybreaks are Into the dim mysterious surge afar, The Arabian dwelt; after long travel ...
... Patil, 86, 127 Pāttāvalis, 219 Paulisa, Paulus, 280 Paushkarasadi, 544 Pāvāpurikalpa. 475 peacock, Indian, 334 Pehan, 380 Pehoa(town), 84 Peithou. 525 Peri, M., 406 Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. 173, 247, 380, 417-8, 475-82.520, 541, 601 Persepolis, 384 Page 635 Persians (Parsua) ...
... drowned, lost himself in the sea of the divine being. Among these canonised saints of Southern Vaishnavism ranks Vishnuchitta, Yogin and poet, of Villipattan in the land of the Pandyas. He is termed Peri-alwar, The Great Alwar. A tradition, which we need not believe, places him in the ninety-eighth year of the Kaliyuga. But these divine singers are ancient enough, since they precede the great saint ...
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