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their skill or proficiency in arts like music, painting or poetry, they attempt to try their hand at developing these arts in themselves.
869. If great and good men find that they cannot succeed with people with what merits they have, they then try to do things which may not exactly be proper, moral or lawful (in accordance with the dictates of Manu). If, for instance, he fails as a poet or a painter, he may take to a questionable profession (ETHT3TOUT) to eke out his means of livelihood. That, however, is not very creditable (ut TTTGT3T) to him.
870. Downright bad traits are often represented (TEST) to the king by his flatterers as good points in the man concerned and then he profits thereby. That is because (575) the king does not realise that he is played upon in such a representation (Turki TUTT). Cf. स्वार्थनिष्पादनपरैर्धनपिशितग्रासगधेरास्थानबकैः द्यूतं विनोद इति, परदाराभिगमनं वैदग्न्यमिति, मृगया श्रम इति, पानं विलास इति, गुरुवचनावधीरणं अपरप्रणेयत्वमिति, नृत्यगीतवाद्यवेश्याभिसक्तिः रसिकतेति, स्वच्छन्दता प्रभुत्वमिति, बन्दिजनख्यातिर्यश इति, . . दोषानपि गुणपक्षमारोपयद्भिः अन्तः स्वयमपि विहसद्भिः प्रतारणकुशलैबूंः सर्वजनस्योपहास्यतां यान्ति । कादंबरी.
871. Finding that in this world of fools, their merit and judgement (fad37) are not appreciated in respect of many testing incidents, these good men retire from active life and go to the forest.
872. The grief of good men is two-fold : that they are born at a time when there are few good men to appreciate them and that, on the other hand, they have to move in the midst of the scoundrels roundabout.
873. Masters, who are perfect snobs, grant interviews (376)spot) and get into close contact (48T) with them, seating them on the same seat with them. And then they think and say that they have gained (927) in their company and their association, as nuch as possibly the interviewers have gained by the honour of meeting them in a personal interview.
874. There are men of wealth who revel in intellectual forms of entertainment of high culture. These so-called masters, however, think that their authority is to be shown in doing things, irrational and absurd (
H U T). 875. It is but natural for great men to be upset and feel agitated (अंदोलंत) over disrespect or scant courtesy (अणाअर)
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