Hindi literature from its beginnings to the nineteenth century
Ronald Stuart McGregor
Ronald Stuart McGregor. nurse.141 A sense of the value of mystical love is if anything more insistently stressed in Manjhan than in his predecessors. For Mafijhan''s Manohar, longing (virah) is a gift made to man by God''s grace. The poet tells us that the bird of love that flew from man''s heart at the creation found no resting-place and returned there frustrated: but he implies that there is hope in the pain of the longing man feels when separated from God.142 The importance of man in the ...