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Shatakatraya 1.17

Śatakatraya 1.17

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Sanskrit

1.17

adhigata-paramārthān paṇḍitān māvamaṃsthās
tṛṇam iva laghu lakṣmīr naiva tān saṃruṇaddhi |
abhinava-mada-lekhā-śyāma-gaṇḍa-sthalānāṃ
na bhavati bisatantur vāraṇaṃ vāraṇānām ||

Do not demean wise men who have attained the ultimate truth;
wealth, light as a blade of grass, cannot restrain them at all.
A lotus fiber is never a check for elephants
whose temples are dark with fresh streaks of rut.

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