THE SARANGA BIRDS About in the Forest with Another Female Bird Neglect Ing Wife and Children
, CHAPTER XVIII A saranga bird was living there with its four fledgelings. The male bird was pleasantly roaming THE SARANGA BIRDS about in the forest with another female bird neglect ing wife and children. The mother bird looked IN TilE STORIES narrate(l in the Puranas, birds and after its young ones. As the forest was set on nre beasts speak like men, and sometimes they give as commullCled hy Krishna alia Arjuna and the nre sound advice and even teach spiritual wisdom. But spread in all directions, doing its destruelive work, the natural qualities of those creatures are adroitly the worried mother bird began to lament: 'The nre made to peep through this human veil. is coming lIearer and nearer buming everything, and soon it will be here and destroy us. All· forest One of the characteristic beauties of the Puranic creatures are in despair and the air is full of the literature is this happy fusion of nature and imagi agonising crash of falling trees. Poor wingless nation. In a delightful passage in the Ramayana, babies! You will become a prey to the nre. What Hanuman, who is described as very wise and learned, shall I do? Your father has deserted us, and I am is made to frolic with apish joy, when he imagined not strong enough to flyaway carrying yOll with me." that the beautiful damsel he saw at Ravana's inner courtyard was Sita. To the mother who was wailing thus, the child ren said: "Mother, do not torment yourself on our It is IIsual to entertain children with stories in account; leave us to our fate.
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