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Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Pride and Heroism

Lion-Heart

The manèd lion, first of kingly names,

Magnanimous and famed, though worn with age,

Wasted with hunger, blunted his keen edge

And low the splendid spirit in him flames,

Not therefore will with wretched grass assuage

His famished pangs as graze the deer and bull.

Rather his dying breath collects desire,

Leaping once more from shattered brows to pull

Of the great tuskèd elephants mad with ire

His sovereign banquet fierce and masterful.