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When the toad

Allama Prabhu, Allama Prabhu poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Shaivite (Shiva) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Allama Prabhu
(12th Century) Timeline

English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada
Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
12th Century

When the toad
swallowed the sky,
look, Rahu
the serpent mounted
and wonder of wonders!
the blind man
caught the snake.

Thus, O Lord,
I learned
without telling the world.

 

 

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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Themes

  Sky
  Snake
 
 
 


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