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LECTURE XIV.
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whom do you call unfailing ? My sons, I am anxious to learn this.' (22)
"Mankind is harassed by Death; it is taken hold of by Old Age; the days? are called unfailing : know this, Father! (23)
“The day that goes by will never return; the days elapse without profit to him who acts contrary to the Law. (24)
“The day that goes by will never return; the days elapse with much profit to him who acts up to the 'Law.” (25)
Having lived together in one place, and both parties having acquired righteousness, we shall, O my sons, afterwards go forth (as monks) and beg alms from house to house.' (26)
“He who can call Death his friend, or who can escape him, or who knows that he will not die, might perhaps decide: this shall be done tomorrow. (27)
"We will even now adopt the Law, after the adoption of which we shall not be born again. The future has nothing in store for us (which we have not experienced already). Faith will enable us to put aside attachment.” (28)
(Bhrigu speaks to his wife Vâsishthi.) Domestic
1 Literally, the nights. It seems to have been the custom at the time when the Sûtras were composed, to reckon the time by nights, though the reckoning by days is not quite uninstanced in the Sûtras.
2 This is the explanation of duha ô by the commentators, who apparently think that the parents and the sons are meant. The word in question is originally an adverb, but it is also (cf. Thirteenth Lecture, verse 18) taken by the commentator as a numeral, and rendered dyay ôh. A genitive of the dual occurs in XIX, 90.
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