International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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In the Mahabharata there appears the hero of the Yadani, Krishna ; the Madhusudana (slaughterer of the Demon Madhu) ; the Jhanardana, or tormentor of mankind (Vishnu) ; the Varsveya, or descendant of the Vrisni. A cow-herd in his youth, or govinda, son of Vasudeva and Devaki, reared in hiding, on the flowery banks of the Yamuna, in the care of Nando, amid flocks and the pastoral loves narrated by Jitagovinda, (the Shep Krishna and Shishupal (from the Mahabharata) herd's Song) of insuperable lyric beauty, akin to the Song of Songs— allegorical, maybe, as the Song itself is, and symbolic of the longing of the earthly soul for the Divine. Side by side with the Mahabharata, and the Divine Song of India, is the gem of the Ramayana, the epic of Rama, an exile in the woods with his mate Sita, until Ravana, the prince of demons, seized her, from the hut in which she was hidden, after killing Jhatayasi, the guardian vulture. And Rama reconquers her, — 164