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The flame-gatherers

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Set on the Narmáda plain and the plateau of Mandu, the novel follows a Rajah's return from campaign and interweaves episodes of power, passion, and spiritual seeking, organized into two parts—Flesh-Fire and Soul-Fire. Early chapters depict conquest, court life, and a passionate love connected to an Asra figure and a ruby; later sections shift toward asceticism, moral struggle, and pilgrimage, examining cultural encounters, fate, and the tension between sensual desire and spiritual awakening. The narrative balances vivid landscape and ritual detail with inner conflict as characters confront longing, exile, and the search for truth.

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Title: The flame-gatherers

Author: Margaret Horton Potter

Release date: January 6, 2023 [eBook #69721]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Macmillan Company, 1904

Credits: Mary Glenn Krause, Charlene Taylor, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents remain.

The cover was prepared by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

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