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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Virtue

The Altruist

How rare is he who for his fellows cares!

His mind, speech, body all are as pure jars

Full of his soul’s sweet nectar; so he goes

Filling the world with rows on shining rows

Of selfless actions ranked like the great stars.

He loves man so that he in others’ hearts

Finding an atom even of noble parts

Builds it into a mountain and thereon

His soul grows radiant like a flower full-blown;

Others are praised, his mind with pleasure starts.