My Reminiscences, Rabindranath Tagore [famous ebook reader .TXT] 📗

words, but to unmeaning notation-sounds representing drumbeats or plectrum-impacts which in Indian music are of a considerable variety of tone, each having its own sound-symbol. The Telena is one such style of composition. —⁠Tr. ↩

Reciters of Puranic legendary lore. —⁠Tr. ↩

The Goddess of Wealth. ↩

As distinguished generally from different provincial styles, but chiefly from the Dravidian style prevalent in the South. —⁠Tr. ↩

Many of the Hindustani classic modes are supposed to be best in keeping with particular seasons of the year, or times of the day. —⁠Tr. ↩

The world, as the Indian boy knows it from fairy tale and folklore, has seven seas and thirteen rivers. —⁠Tr. ↩

This is addressed to Yashoda, mother of Krishna, by his playmates. Yashoda would dress up her darling every morning in his yellow garment with a peacock plume in his hair. But when it came to the point, she was nervous about allowing him, young as he was, to join the other cowherd boys at the pasturage. So it often required a great deal of persuasion before they would be allowed to take charge of him. This is part of the Vaishnava parable of the child aspect of Krishna’s play with the world. —⁠Tr. ↩

A busti is an area thickly packed with shabby tiled huts, with narrow pathways running through, and connecting it with the main street. These are inhabited by domestic servants, the poorer class of artisans and the like. Such settlements were formerly scattered throughout the town even in the best localities, but are now gradually disappearing from the latter. —⁠Tr. ↩

One of Bankim Babu’s brothers. ↩

The month corresponding to July⁠–⁠August, the height of the rainy season. ↩

The month of Aswin corresponds to September⁠–⁠October, the long vacation time for Bengal. ↩

Referring to his marriage with the writer’s niece, Pratibha. —⁠Tr. ↩

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My Reminiscences
was published in 1912 by
Rabindranath Tagore.
It was translated from Bengali in 1916 by
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