Sanskrit proverb?

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

15 5 12
It vaguely reflects the idea of rolling time in a Tagore
song
“With two hands are played the cymbals of time, 
 Left and right 
With two hands…/
Beat by beat
Morning and night
New waves ever go on rising,
In the conflict yonder of white and black
Various colours are created rhythmically
Etc etc”
 A point by point similarity
is not claimed.
Best
DB


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 From: Benjamin Fleming <fleming_b4 at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk 
Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit proverb?
 

 
Well the very first link attributes it to Kālidāsa, though this may well be an apocryphal attribution. The (English) quote appears to come from Sir William Osler (deemed "father of modern medicine") who supposedly liked to use it in his speeches. The attributed title is "Salutation to the Dawn". One can find a number of email lists on 'the google' (to quote George Bush) who have attempted to vet this with not much success, although I did not search too deeply.

Now, there is 20 minutes I will never get back. . . .

Back to editing articles.

BF

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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:07:49 -0400
From: ssandahl at SYMPATICO.CA
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit proverb?
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk

If you google the line "For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision." 
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You'll get 137,000 results - but no real answer of course!
Best
Stella Sandahl
ssandahl at sympatico.ca

 

On 2012-05-14, at 11:16 AM, Valerie J Roebuck wrote:

For yesterday is but a dream
>>And tomorrow is only a visio n.


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