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THE CURSE AT FAREWELL
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(Kach, at the conclusion of a thousand years of study in the forest-hermitage of Sukra, Preceptor of the Daityas, bids farewell to Debjant, Sukra’s daughter, and asks for her blessing on the know- ledge he has won.]
KACH
Debjant, bid your servant now return
To the Gods’ world. I finish my sojourn
In my preceptor’s house to-day. ‘Then give
Your benediction'—let my knowledge live
A jewel-brightness in my deepest breast,
As burns the sun on sacred Meru’s? crest,
With glory unquenchable.
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