Gandhi's memorial ( or Samādhi ) at Rāj Ghāt, New Delhi, bears the epigraph " Hē Ram ", ( Devanagari: ह े!

Poe places a Latin epigraph before the story, describing it as " a quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris ".

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.

Support of the Buddhist faith by the Sungas at some point is suggested by an epigraph on the gateway of Barhut, which mentions its erection " during the supremacy of the Sungas ".

Hardy placed an epigraph at the beginning of this book.

Support of the Buddhist faith by the Sungas at some point is suggested by an epigraph on the gateway of Bharhut, which mentions its erection " during the supremacy of the Sungas " Hinduism does not evangelize.

His epigraph at Canterbury stated that when he died he was in old age, so perhaps he was born around 670.

A caption in the opening titles ( directly inspired — according to Frears — by the identical epigraph at the start of the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ) informed viewers that " much of what follows is true ".

But it stands neglected at the Parvathi Nageshwara Temple in Begur near the city ... written in hale Kannada ( old Kannada ) of the 9th Century, the epigraph refers to a Bengaluru war in 890 AD in which Buttanachetty, a servant of Nagatta, died.

The Latin epigraph, " Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas ," at the head of the text may be translated as: " My companion said to me, if I would visit the grave of my friend, I might somewhat alleviate my worries.

Its issues bore a sonnet by William Wordsworth as epigraph, beginning " They called thee ' merry England ' in old time " and characterizing Merry England " a responsive chime to the heart's fond belief ":

* Jack London uses epigraph in the beginning of Call of the Wild.

T. S. Eliot's use of a quotation from Heart of Darkness —" Mistah Kurtz, he dead "— as an epigraph to the original manuscript of his poem The Hollow Men contrasted its dark horror with the presumed " light of civilization ," and suggested the ambiguity of both the dark motives of civilization and the freedom of barbarism, as well as the " spiritual darkness " of several characters in Heart of Darkness.

Both titles are derived from a couplet in T. S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land ( which appears both in this work and Consider Phlebas as an epigraph ):

Here he wrote his first ― but never published ― novel The Poor Man and the Lady in 1867, and the poem " A Young Man's Exhortation ," from which Graham Greene took an epigraph for his own novel, The Comedians.

The epigraph and dedication to The Waste Land showing some of the languages that Eliot used in the poem: Latin, Greek, English and Italian.

Its original publication included an epigraph which quoted Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem " A Psalm of Life ".

* Scott Spencer uses the final six lines of Schwartz's poem “ I Am a Book I Neither Wrote nor Read ” as an epigraph for his National Book Award nominated novel, Endless Love.

Although he finally chose not to use it, the draft version of the epigraph for the poem came from Dante's Purgatorio ( XXVI, 147-148 ):

The latter paragraph is used as the epigraph to Vladimir Nabokov's acclaimed poem / novel Pale Fire.

The same poem, in Russian translation, served as an epigraph for Snail on the Slope ( published 1966 – 68 ), by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, also providing the novel's title.

The epigraph for Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby features a poem ostensibly by D ' Invilliers called Then Wear the Gold Hat.

The epigraph is from a Richard Crashaw poem, Love's Horoscope.

The opening epigraph is the William Ernest Henley poem " Invictus ".

The epigraph to Auden's posthumously-published play The Chase ( written in 1935 ) was a poem by a Downs pupil, John Bowes, that had been mocked by the other pupils in one of Auden's classes ; Auden rebuked them by saying that the poem was not only satisfactory but that he would use it in his next book.

The epigraph to the poem is from St. Augustine's Confessions, III, i, written between 397 and 398 AD:

The book's epigraph is a translation of François Villon's 15th-century poem Ballade du concours de Blois:

In modern film, intertitles are used to supply an epigraph, such as a poem, or to distinguish various " acts " of a film or multimedia production by use as a title card.

James Dickey opened his 1965 poem " The Firebombing ," about a nighttime air raid on the Japanese town of Beppu, with this epigraph from Eich's work:

* Adrienne Rich's poem " The Burning of Paper Instead of Children " makes numerous references to the Catonsville Nine and includes an epigraph from Daniel Berrigan during the trial (" I was in danger of verbalizing my moral impulses out of existence ").

A convex function | function is convex if and only if its Epigraph ( mathematics ) | epigraph, the region ( in green ) above its graph of a function | graph ( in blue ), is a convex set.

Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down ; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.

The presence of the Apostle Peter in this area, where he is supposed to have lived, appears to be confirmed in an epigraph in the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian that reads Domus Petri ().

The book's epigraph is a quote from Robinson Crusoe, and like Crusoe, Adam Pollo suffers long periods of loneliness.

The entire epigraph for all 20 rings that isn't inscribed on the one ring is:

Significantly, the opening epigraph of the collection is the Peter Fonda line from the end of Easy Rider: " We blew it.

Following the opening credits, the epigraph states that the film's story is non-factual.

Its epigraph reads, " The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over ; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard ," taken from a verse in the Katha-Upanishad.

In 1965's Dune, the Princess Irulan is quoted ( via epigraph ):

The epigraph "" ( Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness ) attributed by Poe to Seneca was not found in Seneca's known work.

In Heretics of Dune it is noted via epigraph that Tleilaxu sperm " does not carry forward in a straight genetic fashion ...

Shaddam is described as " red-haired " by his daughter Irulan via epigraph in Dune, and noted to be 72 years old yet looking no older than 35.

* The epigraph of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ) is from Browne's Hydriotaphia ,( Chap. 5 ): " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ".

Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his formulation of symbolic interaction as dramaturgical perspective in his 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, which begins with an epigraph by George Santayana about masks.

Jessica is quoted via epigraph in Heretics of Dune:

Equivalently, a function is convex if its epigraph ( the set of points on or above the graph of the function ) is a convex set.

The question posed in the epigraph is that pattern, with a movement from loss and depression to a slow renewal of an expressive vision and cautious hope.

The epigraph to Eliot's Gerontion is a quotation from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.