LIFE AND DEATH
A HINDU LEGEND
LIFE AND DEATH
A HINDU LEGEND
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LIFE AND DEATH
There were two regions lying side by side, as it were two immense plains, with a clear river flowing between them.
At one point the banks of this river sloped gently to a shallow ford in the shape of a pond with transparent, calm water.
Beneath the azure surface of this ford could be seen its golden bed, from which grew stems of lotus; on those stems bloomed white and rose-colored flowers above the mirror of water. Rainbow-hued insects and butterflies circled around the flowers and among the palms of the shore, while higher up in the sunny air birds gave out sounds like those of silver bells. This pond was the passage from one region to the other.