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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Virtue

The Aryan Ethic

Hear the whole Gospel and the Law thereto: –

Speak truth, and in wise company abide;

Slay lust, thine enemy; abandon pride;

Patience and sweet forgiveness to thee woo;

Set not in sin thy pleasure, but in God;

Follow the path high feet before thee trod;

Give honour to the honourable; conceal

Thy virtues with a pudent veil of shame,

Yet cherish to the end a stainless fame;

Speak sweetness to thy haters and their weal

Pursue; show pity to unhappy men,

Lift up the fallen, heal the sufferer’s pain.