SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Fate
I saw the brilliant moon eclipsed, the sun
Baulked darkly of his radiant pilgrimage,
And halter-bound the forest’s mighty one,
The iron-coiled huge python in a cage;
Then saw the wise skilled brain a pauper, and said
“Fate only is strong whose hand on all is laid.”