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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Wisdom

The Narrow Way

Kind to be, yet immutably be just;

To find all baser act too hard to do,–

Yea, though not doing shatter our life to dust; –

Contempt that will not to the evil sue;

Not to the friend that’s poor our need to state;

Baffled by fortune still erect to stand;

Being small to tread in footprints of the great;

Who for weak men such rugged path has planned,

Harder to tread than edge of this sharp brand?