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Chapter XIX

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8. _'And vital feelings of delight_
_Shall rear her form to stately height._
_Her virgin bosom swell.'_

Wordsworth.

9, 10. The attraction of music for deer is a favourite motif of Rājput paintings, particularly in the representation of certain rāgiṇīs (Torī, etc),--see Coomaraswamy, '_Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon_,' fig. 78. In another poem Vidyāpati has:

For when she hears love's language spoken,
She turns away her eyes,--and lends her ears.

RĀDHĀ PŪRBBARĀGA

The First Passion of Rādhā

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