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LECTURE XXVII.
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some to their good fare; some to their comfort; some nurse their anger. (9)
'Some are averse to begging ; some are afraid of insults and are stuck up; (how can) I convince them by reasons and arguments'(?) (10)
(A bad pupil) makes objections, and points out (imagined) difficulties; he frequently acts in opposition to the words of the superiors. (11)
*(He will say if sent to a lady): "She does not know me, she will give me nothing; I suppose she will be gone out; send some other monk there.” (12)
'If sent on an errand, they do not do what they were bidden", but stroll about wherever they like; or deporting themselves like servants of the kings, they knit their brows (when speaking to other people). (13)
After they have been instructed, admitted into the order, and nourished with food and drink, they disperse in all directions like geese whose wings have grown. (14)
Now this driver (viz. Garga), who had to deal with bad bullocks, thought: 'What have I to do with bad pupils ? I am disheartened. (15)
*As are bad pupils, so are bad bullocks; I shall leave these lazy donkeys, and shall practise severe austerities. (16)
1 The metre of this verse seems to have originally been âryâ, but an attempt has been made to change it into Anushtubh. We meet here with the interesting form anusâ sammî (read anusa sa mmi)=anusâsmi.
2 This seems to be the meaning of the word palium kanti. The commentators say, after other explanations, that they pretend not to have met the person to whom they were sent.
9 Râgavetthim va mannantâ; vetthi=vishti, hire.
