F. W. Bain

[4] In 1892, he entered the Indian Educational Service, going on to become a professor of History in the Deccan College of Poonah (Pune), in British India, until his retirement in 1919.

In the story, the king Súryakánta falls in love with the wise and beautiful princess Anangarágá, who will marry only the suitor who asks her a question she cannot answer.

A contemporary review said, in part: The book contains numerous footnotes referring to Sanskrit puns and wordplay that the author claimed to have been unable to render in English.

A Digit of the Moon was followed by a number of other stories in the same mode: Syrup of the Bees, Bubbles of the Foam, Essence of the Dusk, Ashes of a God, Mine of Faults, Heifer of the Dawn, and others.

A review of Bubbles of the Foam in 1912 said: Significant portions of his book Descent of the Sun were used, often word-for-word and with credit, by Meatball Fulton for his Fourth Tower of Inverness radio series.