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earth is still marked with the foot.prints of the lion-cubs in the form of the good?
44) It is only the good (and none else but they) who know how to extricate the poor and the miserable (from their wretched plight), how to do good to those who seek their protection and how to pardon even those that have wronged them.
45) The earth (proudly) supports (on her bosom) two persons or rather, shall we say, the earth is supported by two persons, viz. one who is inclined to do good to others and one who does not forget a good turn done to him.
46) The good (ordinatily) do not undertake to do a thing, but if somehow they do so, they, like a line drawn (etched) on a rock, do not change (i. e, do not resile from their commitment) even if they have to sacrifice their life (in carrying out their plighted word)
47) At the time of world-dissolution, (even) the mountains stir; (even) the oceans trangress their boundary-line; but even at that time, the good do not slacken their determination to stand by their commitment.
48) Even though the creator has made the good to be (often) rewardless (i. e. even if their goodness is not many times reward. ed), just like the sandal trees (which are made by the creator to be unproductive of fruit), still they promote the good of others at the cost of their own body (just like the sandal tree which wears itself away to cool and delight others).
5. The Section on the Wicked 49) The face of the accursed wicked person, which is always somhre in appearance like a mass of lamp-black, angry and frowning,is never found to be clear(lucid, beaming with a candid smile).
50) The wicked person, stiff in his attitude(or bearing), with a crooked neck, hanging down and difficult to be looked at because of his cruel (terrible) eyes, appears like a person who has suddendy risen to prosperity (in an upstartish manner) and like a person killed on a pale (like an impaled person).
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