Tartar : collective name for Turks, Cossacks, etc., of central Asia or Siberia; they overran parts of Asia & Europe under Mongol leadership in 13th century.
... measureless crown— The unwalled glory of some Tartar day, The inscrutable puissance of a Negro night. There every straining mood brims infinite, An all-submerging primal mystery, A waveless ocean of Omnipotent ease— Or like all heaven's truth-core flames the will! Page 169 SRI AUROBINDO'S COMMENT "The Tartar day and Negro night have vividness and power; ...
... measureless crown— The unwalled glory of some Tartar day, The inscrutable puissance of a Negro night. There every straining mood brims infinite, An all-submerging primal mystery, A waveless ocean of omnipotent ease— Or like all heaven's truth-core flames the will! Sri Aurobindo's Comment "The Tartar day and Negro night have vividness and power; the ...
... Alnuman's hand And girls of glorious limb and feature he Bought for his slaves, of rose and ivory, Sweet Persians with the honey-hiding mouth And passionate Arab girls and strong-limbed youth Of Tartar maidens for his harem doors. Page 156 For now not vainly the fair child implores Of Shaikh or of Emir his love for boon, But with high marriage-rites some prosperous moon At last has ...
... Z represent? ... It was as imperative and clear, as positive and absolute as could be: the certitude that destruction was behind the door, that it was inevitable. And it had the form of those great Tartar or Mongol invaders, those people who came from the North and invaded India, who pillaged everything ... That's what it was like. But what Z was doing there I don't know. What does he represent? .. ...
... There was Scott the novelist, there was Byron the poet — and in our times Davies, some of whose verse we have quoted. Timur the terrific conqueror was lame — and Marlowe in his Tamburlane made the Tartar look even more terrific by some of his similes. The Greek god Hephaestus had also an abnormal leg, but Sri Aurobindo in his Ilion brings out his godhead all the same when he describes how from the ...
... ancient times. It is a peculiar race always disturbed and always the same! If you study Chinese history one thousand years back, you will find they were in disturbance and yet they had their culture. The Tartar king who tried to destroy their culture by burning their books did not succeed. I would not be surprised Page 100 if, after the present turmoil, two thousand years hence you find ...
... like France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain or modern Germany; it has been a congeries of nations, Great Russia, Ruthenian Ukraine, White Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Siberia, all Slavic with a dash of Tartar and German blood, Courland which is mostly Slav but partly German, Finland which has no community of any kind with the rest of Russia, and latterly the Asiatic nations of Turkistan, all bound together ...
... hidden hills of trance A wideness free from barbs of iron speech, A golden life safe from the ravener's reach, A beauty brooding in some blue expanse Beyond the long bows of the Tartar Khans. Nothing they see, but hunger to draw nigh And grasp in their red hands where the blood's fire Leaps in ten flames that would devour the sky. Far from the arrows screaming ...
... The Chinese are a peculiar race—always disturbed and always the same. If you study their history two thousand years back you will find they were in disturbance and yet they had their culture. The Tartar king who tried to destroy their culture by burning their books didn't succeed. And I wouldn't be surprised if after the present turmoil you find them two-thousand years hence what they are today. That ...
... journalism, the Government could fasten upon only one single piece.... This is perhaps an indication that the Government have got a rather tough customer to deal with, if indeed they have not caught a Tartar. Mr. Aravinda will be found a foeman fully worthy of the sharpest steel........The ability with which the Bande Mataram is conducted is now known up to the highest quarters in England The fact is ...
... kind. Here for two thousand years we have tasted the bliss of the angels; but, I know not why, it seems to me that memories of Iran come back to my heart. The waters of the Jihun and the tents of the Tartars where the tribes of Afrasiab wander, Damascus the opulent, and our own cities, where the houses of our parents adjoined and we leaned from the balcony and talked in soft whispers, seem to me again ...
... Ashram dispensary with Mother's approval, was a compound consisting of prescribed quantities of lithinus carbonate, lithinus benzoate and sodium bicarbonate . Fixed quantities of this and powdered tartaric or citric acid, or fresh lime juice, added to 200ml of water made one dose. Its use was Stopped in 1972. × ...
... races. There were Russian nobles wearing laces, diamonds, and velvets made up in the latest Pans fashion; there were merchants and military men; there were a few peasants in smocks; there were Tartars and Bashkirs. Well over a thousand delegates assembled. Prior to the convention, the Empress sequestered² herself in the Kolomenakoe Palace not far from Moscow. Here she gathered around her ...
... civilisation which is taken as the basic foundation, the general layout of the whole structure. The first shock or blow the edifice received was from the Greeks and then the Huns and Scythians – the Tartars– something that struck at the most essential element of Indian culture and character. Psychologically the new leaven was brought in and injected by Gautama Buddha – the un-Vedic Buddha– the external ...
... around 960 A.D. and they united into one empire the Muslim kingdoms of Western Asia. The Afghans were also converted to Islam around the eighth century. Then there appeared on the scene the Mongols and Tartars. There is no event in the history of Islam that for terror and desolation can be compared to the Mongol conquest. The hosts of Chengiz Khan swept like an avalanche over the centres of Muslim culture ...
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