Brahmā, Vişņu, Śiva Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CDEC FACB GCDC DBBGAACDH BCEB DBEBD FDEB A DDDDAIADEBBBDGADBBBJ EC BBBBBKBEAGG CDED CCDBGDGGLDMCEN G BEBADBBDGBBB BBBCDEEEDABB DDEN NEEDI THE DARK | A |
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In a worldless timeless lightless great emptiness | B |
Four faced Brahma broods | B |
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nasad asin no sad asit tadanim | C |
nasid raja no vioma paro yat | D |
kim avarivah kuha kasya sarmann | E |
Ambhah kim asid gahanam gabhiram | C |
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na mytur asid amrtam na tarhi | F |
na ratria ahna asit pratekh | A |
anid avatam svadhaya tad ekam | C |
tasmad dhanyan na parah kim canasa | B |
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tama asit tamasa gudham agre | G |
apraketam salilam sarvam a idam | C |
tuchyenabhu apihitam yad asit | D |
tapasas tan mahinajayataikam | C |
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Of a sudden sea of joy surges through his heart | D |
The ur god opens his eyes | B |
Speech from four mouths | B |
Speeds from each quarter | G |
Through infinite dark | A |
Through limitless sky | A |
Like a growing sea storm | C |
Like hope never sated | D |
His Word starts to move | H |
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Stirred by joy his breathing quickens | B |
His eight eyes quiver with flame | C |
His fire matted hair sweeps the horizon | E |
Bright as a million suns | B |
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From the towering source of the world | D |
In a thousand streams | B |
Cascades the primeval blazing fountain | E |
Fragmenting silence | B |
Splitting its stone heart | D |
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kamas tad agre sam avartatadhi | F |
manaso retah prathamam yad asit | D |
sato bandhum asati nir avindan | E |
hrdi pratisya kavayo manisa | B |
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II THE MUSIC | A |
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In a universe rampant | D |
With new life exhalant | D |
With new life exultant | D |
Vishnu spreads wide | D |
His four handed blessing | A |
He raises his conch | I |
And all things quake | A |
At its booming sound | D |
The frenzy dies down | E |
The furnace expires | B |
The planets douse | B |
Their flames with tears | B |
The world s Divine Poet | D |
Constructs its history | G |
From wild cosmic song | A |
Its epic is formed | D |
Stars in their orbits | B |
Moon sun and planets | B |
He binds with his mace | B |
All things to Law | J |
Imposes the discipline | E |
Of metre and rhyme | C |
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In the Manasa depths | B |
Vishnu watches | B |
Beauties arise | B |
From the light of lotuses | B |
Lakshmi strews smiles | B |
Clouds show a rainbow | K |
Gardens show flowers | B |
The roar of Creation | E |
Resolves into music | A |
Softness hides rigour | G |
Forms cover power | G |
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tirascino vitato rasmir esam | C |
adhah svid asid upari svid asit | D |
retodha asan mahimana asan | E |
svadha avasat prayatih parastat | D |
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Age after age after age is slave to a mighty rhythm | C |
At last the world frame | C |
Tires in its body | D |
Sleep in its eyes | B |
Slackens its structure | G |
Diffuses its energy | D |
From the heart of all matter | G |
Comes the anguished cry | G |
Wake wake great Shiva | L |
Our body grows weary | D |
Of its law fixed path | M |
Give us new form | C |
Sing our destruction | E |
That we gain new life | N |
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III THE FIRE | G |
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The great god awakes | B |
His three eyes open | E |
He surveys all horizons | B |
He lifts his bow his fell pinaka | A |
He pounds the world with his tread | D |
From first things to last it trembles and shakes | B |
And shudders | B |
The bonds of nature are ripped | D |
The sky is rocked by the roar | G |
Of a wave of ecstatic release | B |
An inferno soars | B |
The pyre of the universe | B |
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Shattered sun and moon smashed stars and planets | B |
Rain down from all angles | B |
A blackness of all particles | B |
To be swallowed by flame | C |
Absorbed in an instant | D |
At the start of Creation | E |
There was a dark without origin | E |
At the breaking of Creation | E |
There is fire without end | D |
In an all pervading sky engulfing sea of burning | A |
Shiva shuts his three eyes | B |
He begins his great trance | B |
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ko adha veda Ka iha pravocat | D |
kuta ajata kuta iyam visrstih | D |
arvag deva asya visajanena | E |
atha ko veda yata ababhuva | N |
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iyam visrstir yata ababhuva | N |
yadi vasa dadhe yadi van na | E |
yo asyadhyaksah parame vioman | E |
so anga veda yadi va na veda | D |
Rabindranath Tagore
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