AN ESSENCE OF THE DUSK



_Love turns venom, now I see,
Flouted Beauties vipers be._




TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

BY

F.W. BAIN


DEDICATED TO THE OTHER SEX.




PREFACE.


More generally known, perhaps, than any other Hindoo legend, is the
story of the demon, RÁHU, who brings about ECLIPSES, by devouring the
Sun and Moon. For when the gods had upchurned the nectar, the delectable
Butter of the Brine, Ráhu's mouth watered at the very sight of it: and
"in the guise of a god" he mingled unperceived among them, to partake.