Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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(xxxiii) pleasures constantly throbs within, although the mind has been forcibly taken away from them. Sound, uninterrupted, is ( heard ) inside the ears, though blocked by fingers" (937). “O fool, how can there be any relaxation ( and release ) for you, when you are fastened by the bonds of love? They would only tighten up firmly on you, if you try to stretch them to extricate yourself” (942). "Is this also not love of pleasures, (prompted by which) men leave their houses full of fraud and deceipt and seek delight in the innermost recesses of the forests, abounding in perennial waterstreams”? (948). “Indeed, even his own beloved goes away from the man who has lost all his property. Does the night, with all her body (i. e. for all time ) unite with the moon, when he is not complete (with all digits ) ? " (953). “Let this tall talk of uplifting the afflicted masses stop. How is that possible for pygmies? These fellows are not capable of arranging for their own welfare even !" (955). “Since there is no respect for men who have not even an iota of wealth, although otherwise they are highly regarded for their merits, we pay our salutation to wealth! And for this reason, too, we say-Away with wealth” (969). How could these men, whose heart is always bowed low, being constantly pulled down by anxiety ( to find food) for their belly, look up with high and lofty minds, all their enterprises having come to naught?” (972) “ A man of affluence revels in special and novel forms (of enjoyment); while a man of limited extention (and addition to his property) desires only stability. The ( poor) man with no money seeks a sound body and a man with diseases is satisfied only to (breathe and ) survive" (991 ).
Talking of old age, he says, "(With age ) man's hair becomes long and gray, which, I believe, are veritable
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