Bhojaprabandha 124

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8. The reception of the poet Rāmeśvara and other court poets.
Then one day, a certain learned man named Rāmeśvara, all the joints of whose limbs were worn down by old age, arrived at the royal assembly. And he said:
"For a lion, and for a good poet, who fasts everywhere, / the breaking of the fast occurs somewhere only by elephant-flesh and royal fortune [respectively]." (124)