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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Pride and Heroism

The Way of the Lion

The dog with a poor bone is satisfied,

Meatless, with bits of fat and sinew greased,

Nor is his hunger with such remnants eased.

Not so the kingly lion in his pride!

He lets the jackal go grazed by his claw

And slays the tuskèd kings. Such Nature’s law;

Each being pitches his high appetite

At even with his courage and his might.