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19. Panchatantra, 1. 15. The same. A wealthy man ev'n strangers treat
As if they were his kinsmen born:
The poor man's kindred all with scorn His claim to kinship basely meet. 20. Vriddha Chanakya, 32. What energy
can effect. Mount Meru's peak to scale is not too high,
Nor Hades' lowest depth to reach too deep,
Nor any sea too broad to overloap, For men of dauntless, fiery energy. 21. Sárngadhara's Paddhati, Dhana-prasamba,
12. What will not men do to get wealth ? For gold what will not mortals dare ? What efforts, struggles, labours spare ? The hostile warrior's sword they brave, And plunge beneath the ocean wave. 92. Panchatantra, 10. 5 (Bomb. ed.); Vriddha Chanakya, 15. 10, &c. Ars longa, vita brevis :
The essence of books to be got. The list of books is long ; mishaps arise
To bar the student's progress; life is brief; Whatever, then, in books is best and chief, The essence, kernel, that attracts the wise. 23. Panchatantra (Bomb. ed.), iii. 92 and v.
49. Love of Home. Not such is even the bliss of heaven
As that which fills the breasts of men To whom, long absent, now 'tis given
Their country once to see again, Their childhood's home, their natal place, However poor, or mean, or base.
24. Mahâbhârata, xü. 5497 ff. A house without a wife is empty: Description
of a good wife. Although with children bright it teems, And full of light and gladness seems, A man's abode without a wife Is empty, lacks its real life. The housewife makes the house; bereft Of her a gloomy waste 'tis left. That man is truly blest whose wife,
With ever sympathetic heart,
Shares all his weal and woe; takes part In all th' events that stir his life; Is filled with joy when he is glad, And plunged in grief when he is sad,
Laments whene'er his home he leaves, His safe return with joy perceives, With gentle words his anger stills, And all her tasks with love fulfils.
25. Mahabharata, xii. 3440, 3450, and
elsewhere. Description of a good king. That man alone a crown should wear
Who's skilled his land to rule and shield :
For princely power is hard to wieldA load which few can fitly bear. That king his duty comprehends Who well the poor and helpless tends, Who wipes away the orphan's tears, Who gently calms the widow's fears, Who, like a father, joy imparts, And peace, to all his people's hearts ; On vicious men and women frowns, The learn'd and wise with honour crowns : Who well and wisely gifts, on those Whose merits claim reward, bestows; His people rightly guides and schools, On all impressing virtue's rules; Who day by day the gods adores, With offerings meet their grace implores; Whose vigorous arms his realm protects, And all insulting foes subjects; Who yet all laws of war observes, And ne'er from knightly honour swerves. 26. Mahabharata, iii. 1055. Merey shoulil
be shown to ignorant offenders. When men from want of knowledge sin,
A prince to such should mercy show. .
For skill the right and wrong to know For simple men is hard to win. 27. Ramayana, vi. 115. 41. Compassion
should be shown to all men. To bad as well as good, to all,
A generous man compassion shows. On earth no mortal lives, he knows, Who does not oft through weakness fall. 28. Mahâbhârata, xiii. 651. "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb," 8c.
(Isaiah, xi. 6). With serpents weasels kindly play,
And harmless tigers sport with deer;
The hermit's holy presence near Tarns hate to love-drives fear away.
(To be continued.)
• The Mungoon (Herpestos Ichneumon) belongs to the order Mustelida (Wonnels).-ED.
