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# Bhojaprabandha 87\_264

English (machine translation) 87\_264

- **Language:** English

### [87\_264](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.bhojaprabandha~en-mt.87_264)

Thus. Then the king said to the prime minister: "Let a house be given to him."  
Again the poet said: "Your Majesty, I have come along with my family with the hope of settling here.  
A master who is patient, generous, and an appreciator of virtues is obtained through merit, but a master who is beneficent, pure, clever, a poet, and a scholar is exceedingly difficult to find."

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