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“When one has authority and effects and power and is handsome in body, he is a welcome companion, gratifying both to the mind and the senses; but when he is overcome by decay, discase, distress and loss of wealth then he is as repulsive na death. (74)
"On tie expiry of youth and in the decay of age one becomes like a tree struck by lightning, or a house dilpidated by nge; promptly say, () sage, when is the time for the extinction of that decay (75)
"Age dries up both men and women, even as the Málu cree. per7 destroys a dense Sála forest ; age is the robber of vigour, power, and energy; a inan iu decay is (as helpless) as one caught in a guaginire. (70)
"Age is the deformes of beauty and handsomeness; it is always the rubber of vigou and of enjoyment; it is the cause of overthrow and or death; it destroys radiance, power, and strength. (77)
" The world is aggrieved ly a hundred diseases; luy innumeral le auments awl suffering; (it is restless,) like a deer in a lwning Carest. Bebold the world in persed in age and disease; pray, quickly direct the means of putting an end to suffering. (75)
"Even as coliness in winter deprives trees, grass, tubers, and herlos I their rigour, so do disease and aye destroy the vigvar (of man); they take away beauty, might and organic powers. 179)
"Discare audi age are always the causers of waste and destruction of wealth and corn and treasures; of anguish and obstruction; of pain as regards dear ones, and of burning like the sun in the heaven. (96)
"Death, transition, and fall are the works of time; they always caune sparation from deur objects and persons; they never retutn, they never restore union; (thos Hoat away) like trees, leaves and fruits on the current of a river. (81)
"All are subject to deat; uone cau coutrol it; death takes
