Simhasanadvatrimshika f2.4

f2.4

kṣudrāḥ santi sahasraśaḥ svabharaṇavyāpārapūrodarāḥ;
svārtho yasya parārtha eva, sa pumān ekaḥ satām agraṇīḥ;
duṣpūrodarapūraṇāya pibati srotaḥpatiṃ vāḍavo,
jīmūtas tu nidāghasaṃbhṛtajagatsaṃtāpavichittaye. || 4 ||

Vile men are in the thousands, whose bellies are filled by the work of nourishing themselves; / he whose self-interest is only the welfare of others is the one foremost among the good: / the submarine fire drinks the lord of rivers to fill its hard-to-fill belly, / but the cloud does so to dispel the torment of the world heated by summer. || 4