Hitopadesha 1.105
Hitopadeśa 1.105
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1.105
anyac ca-
ko vīrasya manasvinaḥ sva-viṣayaḥ ko vā videśaḥ smṛtaḥ
yaṃ deśaṃ śrayate tam eva kurute bāhu-pratāpārjitam |
yad daṃṣṭrānakha-lāṅgula-praharaṇaḥ siṃho vanaṃ gāhate
tasminn eva hata-dvipendra-rudhirais tṛṣṇāṃ chinnatty ātmanaḥ //
And moreover: / What is considered one's own country for a brave, high-minded man, or what a foreign land? / Whatever land he resorts to, he makes it acquired by the power of his arms; / just as a lion, whose weapons are fangs, claws, and tail, plunges into a forest, / and in that very place slakes his thirst with the blood of slain lordly elephants.
1.105.p1
hiraṇyako brūte-mitra kva gantavyam ? tathā coktam-
Hiraṇyaka said: 'Friend, where should we go? And thus it is said:
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