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# Shatakatraya 1.40

Śatakatraya 1.40

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.1.40)

tānīndriyāṇy avikalāni tad eva nāma  
sā buddhir apratihatā vacanaṃ tad eva |  
arthoṣmaṇā virahitaḥ puruṣaḥ kṣaṇena  
so 'py anya eva bhavatīti vicitram etat ||

> Those very same sense organs are unimpaired, that same name remains, / that same intellect is unhindered, that same speech is there: / yet stripped of the warmth of wealth, in a single moment / that very same man becomes someone else altogether—how astonishing this is!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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