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33. Manu, viii. 17, and iv. 239-242:-The only The odour sweet of virtuous deeds, inseparable friend.
Though voiceless, far and wide will flyt Their virtue is the only friend
To tell his presence in the sky That never men deserts in death:
The noonday sun no herald needs. As flits away their vital breath
By self-applause a fool in vain All other ties and friendships end.
From others seeks renown to gain. Nor father, mother, wife, nor son
A wise man', mcrits, long concealed, Besido us then can longer stay,
At last are surely all revealed. Nor kinsfolk; virtue is the one
36. Mahabharata, iii. 2326; Brahma-dharma, Companion of our darksome way.
ii. 2, 1:-The best cur wiforene. Alone each creature sees the light,
Thou sayest right ;- for all the ills of lifu Alone this world at length he leaves,
No cure exists, my fair onc, like a wife. Alone the recompense receives,
37. Mahábharata, xii. 12030-2:-Men should Of all his actions, wrong or right.
seek permaient lesso/1088. His log-like, clod-like borly placed
The body-is it not like foam Within the sad funereal groun:l, His kinsmen one by one turn round,
The tossing wave an instant cresting; Forsake the spot, and homeward haste.
In it thy spirit, birl-like, resting, His virtue never quits his side,
Soon flies to seek another home. A faithful guardian, comrade, guide.
In this thy frail abode, so clear,
How canst thou sluniber free from fear? Be then a store of virtue gained, To help when comes our day of doom :
Why dost thou not wake up, when all Ave cross the dread and trackloss gloom,
Thy watchful enemies ever seek By virtue's friendly arm sustained.*
To strike thee there where thou net weak, 34. Mahabharata, xii. 12121:-Deuth is not
To bring about thy long 'dfor fall? the extinction of the gooil.
Thy days are numberei, -allapaco Lot no one deem the wise are dead
Thy years roll on,--thy powers decay; Who've "shuffled off this mortal coil,"
Why dost thou vainly then delay, Tho wise whose lives were pure from soil,
And not arise and haste away Those souls with holy lore were fed.
To some unchanging dwelling-place? 33. Mahabharata, xii. 10576, 10581 :-Self- 38. Mahabharata, i. 30:
19:-Truth better than czallation and censure of others condemned.
Scrijie. Himself in men's esteem to raise
By weigbing, truth and sacrifice appraise : On others' faults let no one dwell;
A thousand sacrifices truth outweighs. but rather let a man excel
39. Mahabharata, xiii. 1.3 11:-The same. All other men in doing well,
In one scale truth, in the other lay Anul thus command the meed of praise.
A thousand Asvamedhas; try; Oft worthless men, in blind conceit,
I doubt if all that pile so high . Their own superior merits vaunt,
Ey'n half as much as truth would weigh. And better men with failings taunt :
40. Panchatantra, i. 21:-Mer should visit Reproof' themselves with scorn they meet.
forcigit coulies. By blameless acts alone the wise, -
The incurious men at home who dwell, Although they ne'er themselves exalt,
And foreign realms with all t'rir store Nor yet with other men find fault,
Of various wonders ne'er esplo:,To high esteem and honour rise.
Are simply frogs within a well. - Ser Ort. Sank. Terts, vol. I. p. 380. The same idea lus's Thebe, v. 591 f.; and with v. 10591 m. l'ult
reput in the line insti. xiii. vv. 6H15 fr.. and is xix. 3 f. Ivrilly alludelt in the work
wind, 1. 7. 29. Conf. Jantes, ir. 14: 1 Peter, v. S: ant!.. y at: .n Cm. Sophockey, Philartetes, 11-13-4; and Euripides (Din.
in Cicero pro Plaar. 21, 39 Vigilandum est Memper; durf's ed.), Tewlenike, frug. 1.
multa insidia sunt bonis.'
Repeated in xii. 002, and xiii. 30516,-" . Compare l'arerbs, XI. 6; Euripides (Dindorf's ed.). thousand Asvim thax and truth be witched in the Lal. M . 20; Xenoplava's Jemorabilia, I. vii. 1; and Æschylance:-truth exceeds the thousand Avamidbus."
