priscae vestigia fraudis

Brand plucked from Dvivedi's Vashkarni at Samaldas

You crossed Black Waters, Mohandas,

Con now- 'Sic te diva potens Cypri'

English hard for Sanskrit slippery.

'Twixt Dad's Pushtimarg & Mum's Pranami Dhera

sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera

To divide a Stella Maris ; twin djinn Fury 

 Ind's Ashvins- the Drink's Dioscuri!

Hoping to make it big, in horsehair wig, Babus who Horace peruse

Become but the Stagirite's Porus- worthy of Sen-tentious abuse

Till on 'priscae vestigia fraudis' Bapu pauses, determines our causes

Propemptic to Ezekiel's Miss Pushpa tossed to Tarshish Waters

Alas! Mohandas!

E'en Nahars, utterly Martian, have daughters.

Envoi-

That it, our every betterment, yet besiege

Peace hath a Prince! Not Love a Liege.

NB. 

Horace had written a 'propemptica' or 'bon voyage' poem to Virgil in which he reproached the impious invention of the Mariner's craft. For the young Mahatma, who had 'lost caste' by crossing the 'Black Water', this particular poem, which he might well have studied- if only to matriculate and to gain a better handle on the 'Roman Law' paper he needed to pass to qualify as a barrister-  would have been didactically linked to Virgil's 4th Eclogue- in which it is written, of the Millenarian Age to be established by the Universal Emperor, - pauca tamen suberunt priscae vestigia fraudis, quae temptare Thetim ratibus, quae cingere muris oppida

In  Timothy Ades translation-  

Few traces will survive of such old frauds
As Shipping, Agriculture and Defence

This is pretty much a description of Nehru's policy for India. Sadly, his daughter rebelled a little. What to do? Women are like that only.