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Sri Aurobindo

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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Miscellaneous Verses

Natural Qualities

Three things are faithful to their place decreed,–

Its splendour as of blood in the lotus red,

Kind actions, of the noble nature part,

And in bad men a cold and cruel heart.