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... elephant with a young lotus - fibre : as one who tries to cut the diamond with a filament of sirisha ; or as one who desires to make the salt sea sweet with a drop of honey . 7. The Creator has given man , as it were , a cloak to ...
... elephant with a young lotus - fibre : as one who tries to cut the diamond with a filament of sirisha ; or as one who desires to make the salt sea sweet with a drop of honey . 7. The Creator has given man , as it were , a cloak to ...
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... elephant who is infuriated by passion . 18. The Creator in his anger may hinder the swan from sporting in the lotus - bed , his dwelling ; but he cannot take away his faculty of separating milk from water . 19. Bracelets are no ornament ...
... elephant who is infuriated by passion . 18. The Creator in his anger may hinder the swan from sporting in the lotus - bed , his dwelling ; but he cannot take away his faculty of separating milk from water . 19. Bracelets are no ornament ...
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... elephant which he has crushed in pieces . How should he , the mightiest of living things , feed upon withered grass ! 30. A dog rejoices over a small filthy bone of an ox which he has found stripped of flesh , though it satisfies not ...
... elephant which he has crushed in pieces . How should he , the mightiest of living things , feed upon withered grass ! 30. A dog rejoices over a small filthy bone of an ox which he has found stripped of flesh , though it satisfies not ...
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... elephant infu- riated with passion . The energy of the noble - minded man proceeds from his natural disposition , not from his youth . Praise of Riches . 39. Our noble birth may go to the lower regions ; our virtues may perish ; our ...
... elephant infu- riated with passion . The energy of the noble - minded man proceeds from his natural disposition , not from his youth . Praise of Riches . 39. Our noble birth may go to the lower regions ; our virtues may perish ; our ...
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... elephant is weakened by passion ; the islands in a river become dry in the autumn ; the moon wanes ; young women become languid through pleasure , yet is their beauty nothing lessened : so noble men who have diminished their wealth by ...
... elephant is weakened by passion ; the islands in a river become dry in the autumn ; the moon wanes ; young women become languid through pleasure , yet is their beauty nothing lessened : so noble men who have diminished their wealth by ...
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ascetic Author Bengal Bhartrihari Book Buddhist C. M. Ingleby Cambridge Chinese cloth College Compiled containing Crown 8vo Demy 8vo desire DICTIONARY earth Edward Edwin Arnold elephant English and Foreign enlarged ESSAYS evil F. W. Newman Fcap Foreign Philosophical Library French gained Geology German GRAMMAR Henry Hindu History Illustrations Imperial Index India Introduction James John John Dowson king LANGUAGE late Lectures Literature live LL.D London Max Müller mind Modern Müller Nîti Notes Original Oxford paper Ph.D PHILOSOPHY Plates pleasure Poems POETRY Post 8vo Post free Professor of Sanskrit RALPH T. H. GRIFFITH RELIGION Revised Royal 8vo Samuel Butler Sanskrit Second Edition sewed Śiva sloka Small 4to Society Svarga Telang Text Third Edition Thomas thou tion Translated Trübner's Collection Trübner's Oriental Series University Vairagya Verse viii virtues Vocabulary volume W. R. Greg W. W. Hunter William wise words wrapper