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... elephant Airasvata his steed , was defeated . How resist- less is the power of fate ! How vain are human efforts ! 89. Discernment is the fruit of men's actions , and is the result produced by deeds performed in another state : this ...
... elephant Airasvata his steed , was defeated . How resist- less is the power of fate ! How vain are human efforts ! 89. Discernment is the fruit of men's actions , and is the result produced by deeds performed in another state : this ...
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... elephants that bear it up , on the great mountains , and on the tortoise , shakes ; but that which has been promised by men of pure minds never fails , even though ages have passed away . 7. The tortoise is pained through the weight of ...
... elephants that bear it up , on the great mountains , and on the tortoise , shakes ; but that which has been promised by men of pure minds never fails , even though ages have passed away . 7. The tortoise is pained through the weight of ...
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... Elephants , filled with passion , heavy with sleep , may stand at the gate ; horses , adorned with golden orna- ments , may gallop about filled with spirit ; their ... elephant ; wisdom and patience best become a Brâhman . NÎTI SATAKA . 19.
... Elephants , filled with passion , heavy with sleep , may stand at the gate ; horses , adorned with golden orna- ments , may gallop about filled with spirit ; their ... elephant ; wisdom and patience best become a Brâhman . NÎTI SATAKA . 19.
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Bhartr̥hari. elephant ; wisdom and patience best become a Brâhman . Each creature is best adorned by its own special ornament . 19. It is better to fall from the highest point of a lofty mountain and be dashed to pieces among the rocks ...
Bhartr̥hari. elephant ; wisdom and patience best become a Brâhman . Each creature is best adorned by its own special ornament . 19. It is better to fall from the highest point of a lofty mountain and be dashed to pieces among the rocks ...
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... elephant " or " serpent . " 7. This stanza is the one in which the author shows the highest knowledge of the world . It is merely an elaborated form of the English proverb , " Speech is silver , silence is gold . " The same idea runs ...
... elephant " or " serpent . " 7. This stanza is the one in which the author shows the highest knowledge of the world . It is merely an elaborated form of the English proverb , " Speech is silver , silence is gold . " The same idea runs ...
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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