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N the first collected edition of Rabindranath Tagore’s poems, issued in 1896 and arranged chronologically, Vidāya-Abhisāp— The Curse at Farewell—appears immediately after Sonār Tarī— The Golden Boat. The poems of Sonar Tarī fall between the dates 1891 and 1893; so The Curse at Farewell presumably belongs to the autumn of 1893, as Chitra, the next book, contains poems dated in this year.

Indian mythology, like Greek and Norse, knows of a giant race who war with the Gods—the Daityas, usually translated ‘Demons,’ though not wicked in 7