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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
125. O, Fate, if you are favourably disposed towards me, please see that you spare
me from another life in this mortal world, but if you will that I should be in the mortal world please see that I don't fall in love. If however that is your will, let it at least be with a person not difficult to obtain.
126. A good man never gets angry. Even if he gets angry he does not think ill (of
others); and if he thinks ill of anybody, he does not speak it, if he, even then, speaks out, it is not without feeling ashamed of it.
127. It is with great difficulty that one comes across a lovable man. When one gets
him it is difficult to have him in control and even if he is got, he is as good as not got, if he is not as one's heart has wished him to be.
128. O, king, you are the abode or support of good men as a mountain is of clouds,
or an ocean, of mountains or the nether world (pātāla), of oceans.
129. This autumn makes the moon beautiful, the moon the night, the night
night-lotuses, the night lotuses the sandy beach, and the sandy beach the flock of swans.14
130. The thunderbolt strikes the mountains, the mountains with their rocks hurtling
down strike the earth, and the earth in its turn strikes the hoods of Sesa.
131. As a young man playing childish games makes people laugh, even so an old
man indulging in the amorous sports that are meant for the youth.
132. Virtue begets respect; service to the good begets virtues; and flawless religious
merit begets service to the good.
133. The way you torment, O, moon, the proud lady and the way you kill the
wayfarer's wife, surely shows that these two powers / qualities have been indeed given you by the submarine fire and the Kalakūta (deadly) poison (churned out of the ocean and drunk by Siva.)
134. For translation vide KP S. No. (62.434) supra.
14. Cf. ŚPS. No. (180.78) supra.
| SR No. | 006960 |
| Book Title | Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | V M Kulkarni |
| Publisher | B L Institute of Indology |
| Publication Year | 1990 |
| Total Pages | 768 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |