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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On the Wicked

The Human Cobra

Avoid the evil man with learning crowned.

Lo, the dread cobra, all his hood a gem

Of glory, yet he crawls upon the ground.

Fearst thou him less for that bright diadem?