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Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Virtue

Altruism Oceanic

Here Vishnu sleeps, there find his foes their rest;

The hills have taken refuge; serried lie

Their armies in deep Ocean’s sheltering breast;

The clouds of doom are of his heart possessed,

He harbours nether fire whence he must die.

Cherisher of all in vast equality,

Lo, the wide strong sublime and patient sea!