robert louis stevenson penned a child's garden of verses.
robert louis stevenson penned a child's garden of verses.
who penned a child's garden of verses?
robert louis stevenson
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a child's garden of verses is a collection of poetry for children by the scottish author robert louis stevenson, a collection that concerns childhood, illness, play, and solitude. the collection first appeared in 1885 under the title penny whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. it contains about 65 poems, including "foreign children", "the lamplighter," "the land of counterpane", "bed in summer", "my shadow", and "the swing".
a child's garden of verses
this book, written in the usual sanskrit verse-format and comprising 1744 verses divided into 26 adhyayas, minutely covers the entire ambit of jyotisa. beginning with a prayer and after making a few preliminary suggestions (22 verses), its first section commences with the results of the birth-samvatsaras (60 verses), of the two ayanas (2 verses), of ritus (6 verses), of birth-months (13 verses), of lunar pakshas (2 verses), of day and night births (2 verses), of janam-tithis (15 verses), of weekdays (7 verses), of nakshatras (53 verses), of navamsas rising at the time of birth (9 verses), of yogas (soli-lunar) (27 verses), of karanas (11 verses), of gandanta (1 verse), of ganas (3 verses), of 12 lagnas (12 verses), observation on all afore-mentioned (12 verses), on short and long rasis (2 verses), and on 12 bhavas along with description of special nature of planets and various yogas (143 verses). in the second section he deals with the nine planets occupying the 12 bhavas (108 verses). in the third section he deals with astrological aspects and their results (325 verses), with the nine planets variously occupying 12 signs (85 verses), with sarvatobhadra chakra etc., (22 verses), with gochara and ashtakavarga ( 29 verses), and with conjunctions of planets (59 verses). this is followed by the raja yoga adhyaya (80 verses), raja yoga bhanga adhyaya (6 verses), panch mahapurusha yoga adhyaya (18 verses), karaka yoga adhyaya (6 verses), nabhasa yoga adhyaya (48 verses), rashmijatakadhyaya (18 verses), planetary avasthas (10 verses) and sthanadiyuktagrahphalam (8 verses). these are followed by yogas taking the sun and the moon as factors (18 verses), sanyasa yogas (11 verses), arishta yogas (51 verses), arishtabhangadhyaya (15 verses), and sarvagraharishtadhyaya (21 verses). this book also deals with rasi dashas (147 verses), mahadashadhyaya (13 verses) and antradashadhyaya (74 verses). thereafter, it covers danas (10 verses), nashjatakadhyaya (14 verses), death (112 verses) and strijataka (32 verses). this book written in chaste sanskrit omits mention of the two lunar nodes, rahu and ketu.
jataka bharanam