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YASASTILAKA AND INDIAN CULTURE
Fie, fie on the physician and the minister who strive for the health and well-being of a patient and a king respectivly, since they thereby stand in the way of their own profit! (3. 187).
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THE RIGHT THING IN THE RIGHT PLACE
तेजस्तेजस्विनां स्थाने धृतं धृतिकरं भवेत् । कराः सूर्याश्मवद्भानोः किं स्फुरन्ति हताश्मनि ॥
The might of the mighty produces happy results when exerted in the proper place. The rays of the sun do not flash on gravel as they do on sunstones (3. 178).
THE USE OF OPPORTUNITIES
अज्ञानभावादथवा प्रमादादुपेक्षणाद्वात्ययभाजि कार्ये । पुंसः प्रयासो विफलः समस्तो गतोदके कः खलु सेतुबन्धः ॥ All one's efforts are useless, once an opportunity is lost owing to ignorance or error or negligence. What is the use of a bridge after a flood has subsided? (Book IV).
ENDURANCE
मार्दवाधिकतरं कलधौतं तापताडनसहं च निसर्गात् । एवमेव वपुरुत्तमपुंसां संपदां च विपदां च सहिष्णु ॥ Gold is extremely soft, and yet, by nature, capable of bearing heat and pounding. Likewise, the bodies of the ablest men are capable of enduring privation as well as ease (Book V).
CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUTH
यस्मिन् रजः प्रसरति स्खलितादिवोच्चैरान्ध्यादिव प्रबलता तमसश्चकास्ति । सत्वं तिरोभवति भीतमिवाङ्गजानेस्तद्यौवनं विनय सज्जनसंगमेन ॥
In youth ill-fame spreads far and wide as if from sin; deep-rooted ignorance reigns as if from blindness; and patience vanishes as if frightened by Cupid's fire. Control thy youth by association with the good (2. 161).
A THIEF SUSPECTS ALL
आत्मनीव परत्रापि प्रायः संभावना जने । यदस्तेनादपि स्तेनः स्वदोषात् परिशङ्कते ॥
People, as a rule, suppose others to be just like themselves. A thief, on account of his own wickedness, suspects another, even though he is not a thief (3. 121).
CONJUGAL FIDELITY IS RARE
सुरतरहस्यं पुंसां यदि भवति स्वासु देव योषासु । किमिति श्रीरतिमन्दो गोविन्दो बलवीलोलः ॥ Sire, if the inmost eortic desires of men were confined to their own wives, why should Kṛṣṇa, averse to Lakṣmi's love, run after cowherd maids? (3. 204).
ADVICE TO OTHERS
विचक्षणः किं तु परोपदेशे न स्वस्य कार्य सकलोsपि लोकः । नेत्रं हि दूरेऽपि निरीक्षमाणमात्मावलोके व समर्थमेव ॥
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