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    The Ashes of a God
    The Ashes of a God
    The Ashes of a God
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    The Ashes of a God

    By F. W. Bain

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    The Ashes of the God reminds us of the legend in which Kama (the Hindu Cupid) is reduced to ashes by the opening of the third eye (the eye of wisdom) of Lord Shiwar when he tried to seduce him for his meditation with a vision of female beauty. But as F. W. Bain reminds us there is a dynamic link between love and memory and in remembrance love rises like a living Phoenix from the ashes of oblivion.
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    PublisherOtbebookpublishing
    Release dateMay 15, 2019
    ISBN9783958649248
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    F. W. Bain

    Francis William Bain (29 April 1863 – 3 March 1940) was a British writer of fantasy stories that he claimed were translated from Sanskrit. The first of these was A Digit of the Moon (1898),[5] which Bain claimed was his translation of the eighth part of sixteen of a Sanskrit manuscript given to him by a brahmin. In the story, the king Súryakánta falls in love with the wise and beautiful princess Anangarágá, who will marry only the suitor who asks her a question she cannot answer. The king, with his clever friend Rasakósha, sets off to win the hand of the princess. During Bain's life, the argument raged about whether the story was truly a translation or whether Bain had written it himself. While some early reviewers took his statements at face value,[6] many did not. (Wikipedia)

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