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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Fools and Folly

The Great Incurable

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.