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# Shatakatraya 3.15

Śatakatraya 3.15

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.15)

bhikṣā-śataṃ tad api nīrasam eka-bāraṃ  
śayyā ca bhūḥ parijano nija-deha-mātram |  
vastraṃ viśīrṇa-śata-khaṇḍa-mayī ca kanthā  
hā hā tathāpi viṣayā na parityajanti ||

> For food, only a few begged alms, and that too dry and eaten once a day;  
> for a bed, the bare ground; for retinue, one's own body alone;  
> for clothing, a ragged cloak made of a hundred tattered shreds;  
> alas, alas! Even so, sense objects do not abandon us!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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