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It begins: Then said the Wairágí: Now shall thou have emancipation from thy own ignorance, as to thy way to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/) / A Sleep and a Dream., part 4 # A Sleep and a Dream., part 4 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/) **2** Then Ulupí screamed, like a wounded elephant.[57](../../57/ "tree and pragmatics") And she seized him by the arm and shook him violently, and exclaimed: Hast thou a stone within thy breast, instead of a heart, that my beauty cannot touch thee?[58](../../58/ "tree and pragmatics") For I know that I am beautiful, and there is not beauty like mine in the three worlds.[59](../../59/ "tree and pragmatics") And Umra-Singh looked at her, and wondered, for her fury made her more lovely than before.[60](../../60/ "tree and pragmatics") And he said: O daughter of a Daitya, thou speakest the truth: yet a vessel that is full can hold no more, be the liquor what it may, and such is my heart.[61](../../61/ "tree and pragmatics") Let me now pass by thee, as undeserving thy regard: for I am bound for the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. Then said Ulupí, with a stamp of her foot: Fool! thou shall never see that Lotus Land.[62](../../62/ "tree and pragmatics") And she looked at him with a jeering laugh: and instantly she sat down, and wound herself up in her long hair, and began to weep.[63](../../63/ "tree and pragmatics") And as she wept, the tears ran down from her eyes like a river, and fell into the lake.[64](../../64/ "tree and pragmatics") Immediately the lake began to rise and swell, and flood the wood with water.[65](../../65/ "tree and pragmatics") And as Umra-Singh stood gazing at her with astonishment, he found himself standing in a vast marsh, with the trees of the forest for rushes.[66](../../66/ "tree and pragmatics") And he looked, and lo! suddenly that delusive daughter of a Daitya became a mist, and floated away over the water like vapour.[67](../../67/ "tree and pragmatics") And Umra-Singh heard her laughter dying away in the distance as she went, and he was left alone in the wood, with the water up to his waist.[68](../../68/ "tree and pragmatics") \[1\] The Creator.[69](../../69/ "tree and pragmatics") \[2\] From which the sandal wood comes.[70](../../70/ "tree and pragmatics") \[3\] A kind of demon, '\_a son of Dili\_.'[71](../../71/ "tree and pragmatics") (Pronounce \_dait-\_ as \_white\_.[72](../../72/ "tree and pragmatics") \[4\] A reminiscence of Bharirihari.[73](../../73/ "tree and pragmatics") \[5\] Nothing can translate \_bálá\_.[74](../../74/ "tree and pragmatics") It means child, woman, beauty, \_beauté-de-diable\_.[75](../../75/ "tree and pragmatics") \[6\] Wishnu's great breast-jewel (\_Kou\_ as \_cow\_).[76](../../76/ "tree and pragmatics") \[7\] This word here used may mean either a bee or a lover or a wanderer (\_bhramara\_).[77](../../77/ "tree and pragmatics") VII.[78](../../78/ "tree and pragmatics") The Silver Swans[79](../../79/ "tree and pragmatics") And as the water kept on rising, rising, Umra-Singh said to himself: Extraordinary is the guile of women, and copious their tears, but this daughter of a Daitya surely surpasses them all.[80](../../80/ "tree and pragmatics") For who ever heard of tears that, like rivers, could flood a quarter of the world?[81](../../81/ "tree and pragmatics") But in the meanwhile, before I find my death in these rising waters, it is better to take refuge in a tree.[82](../../82/ "tree and pragmatics") So he climbed up into a tree, and looked out over the water, on which the mist hung in the moonlight like a curtain of silver on a floor of lapis-lazuli.[83](../../83/ "tree and pragmatics") And he said to himself: Is this merely an illusion, or rather, is not this wood well named, being in very truth the matted hair of the great god, with these trees for hairs, and this water for the Ganges that wanders among them\[1\], and yonder moon the very ornament of the moon-crested god?[84](../../84/ "tree and pragmatics") But this water goes on rising, and I must ascend higher into the tree.[85](../../85/ "tree and pragmatics") So he climbed up, and up, and as he climbed, the water rose after him, higher and higher, until at last he could see nothing but the water, and the moon, and the tree that stretched away above him into the sky.[86](../../86/ "tree and pragmatics") And as he went, he said to himself: Up I must go, for there is no other resource: and now, unless like the husband of Shrí\[2\], I could save myself on the back of a tortoise from this very sea of water, I must surely be destroyed.[87](../../87/ "tree and pragmatics") For unless this extraordinary tree has no top, I must presently reach it, and meet with my death at the same time.[88](../../88/ "tree and pragmatics") And even without the water, as to how I am to get down again, I have not an idea.[89](../../89/ "tree and pragmatics") So he continued to climb and climb, while the water rose, and the moon sank, and the night gradually came to an end.[90](../../90/ "tree and pragmatics") And then the sun rose over the eastern mountain, and began like himself to climb up into the sky.[91](../../91/ "tree and pragmatics") And the sweat poured from his limbs, and at last he stopped, overcome with fatigue.[92](../../92/ "tree and pragmatics") And he said to himself: Now I can go no further.[93](../../93/ "tree and pragmatics") Since I must now in any case perish, why should I go on climbing in vain?[94](../../94/ "tree and pragmatics") For surely I am on the very roof of the world, and alone with the sun in the sky.[95](../../95/ "tree and pragmatics") And as he looked down, suddenly he saw before him no water and no tree, and his head grew dizzy, and his vision swam, and he could scarcely believe his eyes.[96](../../96/ "tree and pragmatics") For he stood on the peak of a high mountain, in the very zenith of the sky.[97](../../97/ "tree and pragmatics") And all round him, and all before him, and behind him, was a vast desert of burning sand, that stretched away to the very limit of the range of sight, and on its edges rested the quarters of heaven.[98](../../98/ "tree and pragmatics") And it glowed in the fire of the sun's rays like a furnace, and was furrowed and pitted with holes and chasms; and its surface rose and fell, as he watched it, like a woman's breast, and it looked as if it were alive, though it was in truth the home of death.[99](../../99/ "tree and pragmatics") And as he gazed, he saw, how over it there crawled swiftly living things with pointed tails, of the colour of sand, which entered the desert by the holes, and issued from them, and at length stood still, and became invisible, save that their tails never rested, and their bright eyes stood out of the sand to watch.[100](../../100/ "tree and pragmatics") And it seemed to Umra-Singh, in the loneliness of that vast solitude, that all those hideous Eyes sought him out, and fastened on him, and rested on him alone, saying to him as it were: Thou canst not escape.[101](../../101/ "tree and pragmatics") And then he said to himself: Now there is indeed no help for me, and beyond a doubt, my end has come.[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") For to remain here is impossible, and equally certain the death that lies, either in going forward or going back.[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") And yet I could wish to die, if at all, not in the presence of eyes such as these, but in the colour of the eyes of Shrí.[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") Yet how shall I escape the vigilance of yonder dreadful Dwellers in the Sand, wading with difficulty in its substance that will sink under my feet like the waves of the sea, but over which they scud like the shadow of a cloud?[105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/) - next →: [A Sleep and a Dream., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/7/) - ↑ back to [The descent of the sun: A cycle 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