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[ This goddess is adored as the patroness of the fine arts. See "A Hymn to Sereswaty," Poetical Works of Sir William Jones, Vol. ii., p. 123; also The Hindoo Pantheon, by Major Moor (Edward FitzGerald's friend).]
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[ "Pleasant as nail wounds"—The Megha Duta, by Kalidasa.]
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[ A girl married in her infancy.]
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[ The Hindu women were in the habit, when their husbands were away, of braiding their hair into a single lock, called Veni, which was not to be unloosed until their return. There is a pretty reference to this custom in Kalidasa's Megha Duta.]
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[ Guy de Maupasant, by Leo Tolstoy.]