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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NOVEMBER, 1873.)
DERI PHRASES AND DIALOGUES.
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from their privileges, very many of them have eyes ? 2. Would you know why affliction and perished. A happy new birth depends upon a loss of dignity befall those who know the benefits person's virtuous conduct. 4. Though the fruit of knowledge derived from many books? It is of the plantain be ripened in the bitter season this: when Sarasvati, of ancient renown, takes of the margosa, it will not lose its sweetness. up her abode with them, Lakshmi, being coy, Thus, although those who are naturally good, will flee away. 3. He that receives not, but associate with the bad, their friendship with despises as mere talk the command of his father them will not corrupt their minds. 5. Sweet to study, on a letter being gently held out to water may be produced even on the brink of the him in the presence of many, calls out to the BCB-shore, and salt water on the side of a moun- person who presented it and seizes the rod of tain. O lord of the cool shore washed by the offence. 4. If one who has grown up in ignowaves of the ocean! it is truly said that sensi. rance enter the assembly of the excellent in ble men will not imitate those with whom they learning, in the earth, and sits down, it will be consort, but will preserve their own minds. 6. O like the sitting down of a dog; and though, not lord of the cool shore of the ocean where the remaining quiet, he should say anything, it will thick-boughed punnei-trees flourish! will those be like the barking of a dog. 5. The vulgar will who are virtuons and impartial towards all, first repair to the learned and speak of what they contract and then dissolve friendship ? (Sooner) know nothing of; the good, though asked of all than this, it is better that friendship should never they know, display it not, knowing that it be contracted. 7. To be united in friendship with will be thrown away. 6. Those whose tongues the prudent, who think of that of which they are adorned with learning and knowledge fear ought to think, is productive of the highest feli- the disgrace of evil speaking. The unwise indulge city, and affliction is avoided by separating from therein. Thus on the palm-tree the dry leaves fools, who know not what belongs to friendship. maintain a perpetual rustling, whilst the green 8. Whether an individual establish himself in leaves make no noise. 7. When speaking of a good situation, or whether, spoiling that condi. the way of virtue to those who comprehend not tion, he debase himself, or whether he exalt what is good, it is like pressing the sweet mango himself to a much higher condition, or whether into a bowl of hogwash. Like a stick driven he make himself superior to all, he does so en- against a rock, -the point is broken, it will not tirely by his own exertions. 9. In the way of enter in at the ear. 8. Though they wash it business, even for the great to follow after the with milk and put it to dry many days, charcoal ignorant is not folly, but wisdom, 0 nobly-born has not the property of becoming white. Though king of the cool shore resounding with ocean- they strike with a stick, and thrust too, underwaves! 10. Having undertaken a profitable i standing will not enter into the body void of business, having experienced enjoyment, having ! virtue. 9. Like the fly, which battens on filth, performed acts of charity to the excellent, if any instead of feasting on the sweet-smelling and one in any one birth is able to do all this, such a (honey) dropping flower, so to those whose consummation may well be compared to a mer minds are inherently base, what pleasure is there chant-ship that has reached her port.
in words that come from the mouth of the CHAPTER 26.-The want of understanding. worthy, though clean and sweet as honey? 10.
1. Poverty consists in the being destitute of The acute and faultless instruction uttered by accurate learning. Great wealth, which has been the wise, strikes on the mind of the mean withaccumulated by acquisition, consists in the pos- out laying hold of it. A mean man will look session of that learning. Will not the herma- on the face of one like himself, and with him phrodite, who is destitute of manliness, adorn it- hold converse. Belf with every jewel which is desirable in its
(To be continued.)
DERI PHRASES AND DIALOGUES.
BY E. REHATSEK, M.C.E. The Zoroastrians who arrive in Bombay from peculiar dialect which is never written. Some Yezd and some other districts of Persia speak a people think it a language by itself, but nobody