SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Fools and Folly
For all ill things there is a cure; the fire’s
Red spleen cool water shall at once appease,
And noontide’s urgent rays the sunshade tires,
And there are spells for poison, and disease
Finds in the leech’s careful drugs its ease.
The raging elephant yet feels the goad,
And the dull ass and obstinate bullock rule
Cudgel and stick and force upon their road.
For one sole plague no cure is found – the fool.