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# Shatakatraya 2.57

Śatakatraya 2.57

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.2.57)

na gamyo mantrāṇāṃ na ca bhavati bhaiṣajya-viṣayo  
na cāpi pradhvaṃsaṃ vrajati vividhaiḥ śāntika-śataiḥ |  
bhramāveśād aṅge kam api vidadhad bhaṅgam asakṛt  
smarāpasmāro 'yaṃ bhramayati dṛśaṃ ghūrṇayati ca ||

> It cannot be reached by mantras, nor does it fall within the domain of medicine, / nor is it destroyed by hundreds of various pacification rites; / repeatedly producing a certain convulsion in the limbs through the onset of delusion, / this epilepsy of Smara confuses the vision and makes the head spin.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya~en-mt.2.57) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.44.86-2) — Sanskrit
- [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.11.57) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit

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