--- title: A Sleep and a Dream., part 6 — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · full text with trees description: A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Then she stood up, and pushed him back, so violently, that he nearly fell. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/8/) [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 6 # A Sleep and a Dream., part 6 A Sleep and a Dream., part 6 of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown: the whole text, 126 sentences and 2608 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/8/page/2/) Then she stood up, and pushed him back, so violently, that he nearly fell.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") And all they that stood by watched her and wondered.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") For as they gazed, she grew in beauty, like a waxing moon, and flashed like a great jewel, and dazzled the eyes of all like the brightness of a lamp: and the colour of her wondrous eyes shot from them and streamed about the room, and lit up its walls with glory like that of a setting sun. And seeing it, the King her father was full of joy, for he thought: Now she is going to be married, and I have attained the fruit of my birth.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") But the astrologers looked at each other in dismay, for they knew that she was about to die.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") So as they gazed, suddenly she drooped and fell, and lay before them on the floor, like a lotus smitten by the frost.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the astrologers said, gloomily: She has abandoned the body, and gone somewhere else.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") And the King, seeing her fall, and hearing them speak, lost his senses, and fell down beside her in a swoon.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") But Umra-Singh turned, and left the palace, and went out into the street.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") X.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Separation[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") And he reeled about like a drunken man, this way and that way, jostling the people, who marvelled and mocked at him: See, see, the ragged Rajpoot, the suitor of the King's daughter, whose very sight has killed her\![11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") But he heard nothing but the words of Shrí, and saw nothing but her eyes.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") And he staggered on, like a wooden doll, on feet that moved of their own accord, till as before he reached the tank, and sank down upon the ground, knowing neither where he was nor what he did, puzzled about the quarters of the world\[1\].[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") And like a man, out of whose universe the sun and moon and the five elements with their compounds have withdrawn, leaving him alone in the centre of empty space, he lay motionless, plunged in stupor, with dry eyes.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Then all at once memory returned to him, and he began to weep.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") And he wept, as if he contained within him the very fountains of the salt sea, till at last from weariness and grief he fell asleep on the edge of the tank.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") And in his dreams Shrí stood beside him, and revived his parched soul with the nectar of her kindly glance, as a hermit's daughter refreshes with water the plants of the hermitage committed to her charge.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") And after drinking deep draughts from those two fountains of pity and love, he awoke, and found that it was now night, and again he was alone at the moonlit tank.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") And he said to himself: Alas! alas\![19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") I found my bride, and lost her again at the same instant, through the terrible operation of sins committed in a former birth.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Now indeed I am alone, for this time she is gone I know not where, and how am I to look for her?[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") And yet she told me we should meet again, to keep me from despair.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Therefore now I will wander away over the wide world, and spend my life in seeking her: for but this, nothing is left in life, and the hope of reunion is like the back of the Great Tortoise, my solitary refuge in the wreck of the three worlds.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") So he rose up, and went out of the city, and wandered about, hither and thither, like a bubble on the waves of time.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") And he went from village to village, and from city to city, asking everywhere of all whom he met: Have you seen Shrí, my wife? you will know her by her eyes, for they are full of the colour of heaven.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") But however much he asked, he found no answer: nor could anyone tell him anything about her.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") On the contrary, all wondered at him and turned him to ridicule.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") And one would say: Who is this moon-struck vagabond who roams about looking for a blue-eyed beauty?[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") And another: What wonder that Shrí has deserted such a ragged mendicant, who forsakes even the well-to-do\![29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") And others said: This distracted Rajpoot wants the moon, but he needs medicines\[2\].[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") And at last he abandoned altogether the dwellings of men, and wandered continually in the jungle, with no companions but his shadow and his sword, looking in vain for the path by which he had gone on his former journey to the Land of the Lotus, and gazing by day at the pools of blue lotuses, and by night at the heaven with its stars, for they were like mirrors and images of the hues and shadows of the eyes of Shrí.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") \[1\] \_dinmohita=desorienté\_.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") \[2\] The point of these gibes depends on the various meanings of the word Shrí: which may mean his wife, or the goddess of fortune, or the moon: out of which come herbs or medicines.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") XI.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") The Lord of the Beasts[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Now in the meanwhile it happened that Maheshwara, as he roamed through the sky with Párwati on his breast, looked down to earth, and caught sight of Umra-Singh wandering in the forest, uttering lamentations, and exclaiming: O Shrí, where art thou hiding?[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Hast thou, like the desert, no pity for the antelope that is dying of thirst for the water of thine eyes\[1\]?[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") And immediately he remembered his boon to Kamalamitra, and grasped the whole story from beginning to end.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") So he said to Umá with a smile: Go now to thy father\[2\], and wait for me: for there is here a matter that demands my attention.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") Then his consort said to him in a cajoling tone: What is the matter? tell me.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Maheshwara said: I will tell thee afterwards: at present I have no leisure: depart.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Thereupon the goddess went off pouting to the Snowy Mountain.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") But the moon-crested god descended to earth.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") And there, taking the form of an ascetic, he entered the forest.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") And standing in its densest part, his body white with ashes, garlanded with a necklace of skulls, with a half-moon in his yellow hair, he created by his supernatural power a gong, hanging from a banyan tree in the centre of the wood.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") And he struck with his trident a blow on that mind-born gong that resounded through the forest like thunder.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Then instantly, hearing that terrible summons, all the denizens of the wood, Yakshas and Pisháchas, Rákshasas and Hamadryads, with the wild animals and the rest, assembled together and flew towards the sound, and crowded around the gong like flies or bees to honey or a dead body.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") And when they had mustered, they enquired humbly of that Lord of Creatures animate and inanimate: What orders has the Lord of All for his servants, and why are we now summoned?[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Then said the Great Ascetic: There is in this wood a lover looking for his bride.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") And she on her part will sometime or other be here to join him.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") See that none of you do them actual harm, by devouring or destroying them: for they are to work out their redemption in the wood, by the decree of destiny and my will and pleasure\[3\].[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") For they fell under a curse, and so became mortals: but when they meet here, and the circumstances are favourable, their curse will have an end.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Therefore delude them if you will, but beware that you touch not a hair of their heads.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Thus he spoke, and all assented, prostrating themselves at his feet.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") And then he began to dance.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") Then all joined furiously in the festival of his favour, seized with the madness born of devotion, uttering ecstatic hymns of praise, each in his own language.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") So after that he had sported sufficiently, and bestowed on those adorers the nectar of his presence, that Lord whose left half is his wife remembered his promise to the Daughter of the Mountain, and returned to the snowy peak of Kailàs, to tell her the story and coax away her sulks.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/8/page/2/) - ← previous: [A Sleep and a Dream., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/7/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/8/page/2/) - ↑ back to [The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/)