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"Muse of sweet eloquence, of Jupiter daughters, teachers | of hymns. Beautiful moon sung by swift wings. | From her comes heavenly glow to envelop the earth, | from his immortal head, from the bright rays, he pours out | Supreme Beauty: A Glowing Aura | from the golden crown, rays are scattered through the air, | When from the eddies of the sea, wash your shining limbs, | girded with her garments, Selène, who drives her gaze afar, | his foals yok from the steep cervix, radiant, | in vespers, at half a month, that his disc shines fullly; | And as she grows, bright rays are shed | from the firmament; and it is for mortals a signal and an omen. | Once, in her bed of love, she was joined by Croníde, | and she became pregnant and gave birth to Pandía, the maiden | who has, among the Blessed of Heaven, so charming his countenance. || Hail, O Lady, O Goddess of the white arm, O Selene. | Diva with beautiful curls, | benign. Starting with you, | Of the Semigods I will tell the deeds, to which the vati are wont to do, | ministers of the Muses, to sing with the amiable voices."
"Νυκτερινή, δίκερως, φιλοπάννυχε, φαῖνε, Σελήνη, φαῖνε, δι᾽ εὐτρήτων βαλλομένη θυρίδων αὔγαζε χρυσέην Καλλίστιον ἐς τὰ φιλεύντων ἔργα κατοπτεύειν οὐ φθόνος ἀθανάτῃ. ὀλβίζεις καὶ τήνδε καὶ ἡμέας, οἶδα, Σελήνη: καὶ γὰρ σὴν ψυχὴν ἔφλεγεν Ἐνδυμίων."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.