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CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Fools and Folly

Pride of Littleness

The dog upon a meatless bone and lank,

Horrible, stinking, vile, with spittle wet,

Feasts and with heaven’s nectar gives it rank.

Then though the ambrosial God should by him stand,

He is not awed nor feels how base his fate,

But keeps his ghastly gettings more in hand.

The little nature deems its small things great

And virtue scorns and strength and noble state.