Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[NOVEMBER, 1873.
not to be forsaken though guilty of evil deeds ? catches straw. 5. The presumptuously saying, O lord of the renowned mountains, which, co- We are those who will do what should not be vered by the long-stemmed bamboo, pierce the done, and the deferring and putting aside that sky! will men cut off their hand because it has which ought to be done at once, verily these struck the eye? 7. Lord of the cool land where two things will cause affliction instantly, even to the waters brightly shine! the good will not look ascetics, who have renounced the pleasures of the upon the faults of others after mixing with them domestic state. 6. Though born in the same pool (in friendship), though they act disagreeably and grown up together, the ambel-flower will Persons destitute of strength of mind who take never be like the expanded kuverlei. The up evil things and speak of them after mixing (in actions of those who are destitute of excellence, friendship), are themselves inferior to those of though they obtain the friendship of people of whom they speak. 8. In a thing done by stran. high excellence, will never attain the actions of gers, though in itself exceeding bad, what is there such persons. 7. A little monkey breaking into fitted to give pain ? Considered rightly, it is the a fruit with its finger, will strike and seize its acts of those who are affectionately attached, own father, though coming to meet it. Lord of which, o lord of the land where the waterfalls the hills ! the friendship of those who are without murmur! will be esteemed excellent, abiding in unity (of mind) is not pleasant. 8. If I stretch the mind. 9. If persons become aware that those not out my hand and deliver my whole soul whom they have taken into friendship, supposing without hesitation to my friend who is in disthem to be their friends, are not their friends, lettress, may I be cast into the hell where the them nevertheless esteem them better than their wretch is punished who has violated the chaste friends, and conceal the discovery in their own wife of his friend, and may I be scoffed at throughbreasts. 10. If after contracting a firm friend. out the far-famed earth! 9. Like pouring murship with any one, I set myself to note his good gosa-oil into a pot into which ghee has been pourand bad qualities, may I be cast into the helled and taken out again, O lord of the fragrant where the traitor who discovers the secrets and goodly morntains! is the acquisition of the of his friend is punished, and may I be scoffed favour of those who are acquainted with evil, at by the whole world!
after the renunciation of the favour of those who • CHAPTER 24.-Improper Friendship. are acquainted with good. 10. The absence of
1. O lord of the fair and well-watered moun- benevolence of disposition in him whose form is tains, where abundance of cascades fall down beautiful is like water mixed with milk, that is from the black crags ! men will remain until pleasant to drink. For those who are wise, to they have done their work in an old house the become companions of the wicked is like the thatch of which is untied, keeping out the nágu playing with the femalo cobra. water by a dám, and being drenched with the CHAPTER 25.-The possession of underrain falling down upon them. Thus will friends
standing. remain with one until their business is finished. 2. 1. When the excellent behold their enemies The friendship of illustrious men is eminently in adverse circunstances, being themselves convaluable, and is productive of benefit as timely fused on that account, they will not come near rain. But the friendship of the mean, even in to invade them. In like manner the invincible the time of their prosperity, resembles, o lord and mighty serpent (Nhugu) will not draw near of the land of clear water! the failure of rain in to afflict the moon in her first quarter. 2. Lord its due season. 3. The enjoyment of the friend of the cool shore of the broad ocean! self-conship of men of acute understanding is desirable trol is the ornament of the poor. Should they as the joys of heaven. But connexion with un- behave without respect and without any meaprofitable men uninstructed in science and sure of propriety, their lineage will be published literature is a very hell. 5. Our intimacy with by (the inhabitants of) the village they live in. those to whom we are not bound by the chain 3. Let the seed of the worin wood be sown in the of friendship, O king of the hills, the sides of best of soils, it will never become a cocoanut-tree. which are covered with groves of tall sandal- So even the Southerns (Yama's subjects) have, trees ! though it seem day by day to increase, by performing acts of virtue, attained heaven; will be dissolved as instantaneously as fire while the Northerns, having derived no advantage