‘Triveni’ is devoted to Art, Literature and History. Its main function is to interpret the Indian Renaissance in its manifold aspects.

‘Triveni’ seeks to draw together cultured men and women in all lands and establish a fellowship of the elect. All movements that make for Idealism in India as well as elsewhere, receive particular attention in these columns. We count upon the willing and joyous co-operation of all lovers of the Beautiful and the True.

May this votive offering prove acceptable to Him who is the source of the ‘Triveni’–the Triple Stream of Love, Wisdom and power!

BY MALLA VARAPU VISWESWARA RAO

(Translated by the author from his poem in Telugu)

Oh, Splendid Orb,

Oh, Poet,

Heavenward hast thou gone,

Leaving the forlorn world in utter darkness.

Heavenward hast thou gone,

Oh, Gurudeva!

Oh, thou full resplendent Sun,

Oh, Poet,

Hast thou, responding to the call of the inevitable,

Bending thy lovely head,

Seated thyself in the chariot of vanishing years,

And started out on thy last great journey,

On the invisible road to Eternity?

Who, henceforth, unto the groping children of this earth,

Will show the unerring light that guides them on,

Oh, Gurudeva?

Thou wert the gracious snow-covered heights of the Himalayas.

Thou wert the fountain whence rose the everlasting springs of Poesy.

From the red-lotuses of thine unreached mountain-lakes,

Thou hast taken the lotus-sweetness,

And made it flow to earth.

In but the span of a lifetime

Thou wert the maker of an epoch---

Heavenward hast thou gone,

Oh, thou glorious and mighty Orb,

Oh, Poet,

Thou hast drawn the last nectarous moisture of beauty

From the secretest hidden corners of the Night and the Day;

Thou hast drunk of the beauty, till the heart was full;

Thou hast drunk of the beauty of Creation,

From Season to Season,

Living, reveling in the fragrance of sublime poesy.

Heavenward hast thou gone,

Let thy departing breath,

Upon this earth, spread deep into the future world of thought.

And let the love thou gathered on the earth

Add one more symphony to the music of the heavens.

Let the penetrating light of thy wisdom

Move out in waves unto the very ends of Space.

And let the loveliness of heaven and earth

Meet in the flood of your imagination, in many a vortex.

Oh, Splendid Orb,

Oh, Poet,

Heavenward hast thou gone,

Leaving the world in darkness.

Heavenward hast thou gone,

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