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# Shatakatraya 3.33

Śatakatraya 3.33

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.33)

ādhi-vyādhi-śatair janasya vividhair ārogyam unmūlyate  
lakṣmīr yatra patanti tatra vivṛta-dvārā iva vyāpadaḥ |  
jātaṃ jātam avaśyam āśu vivaśaṃ mṛtyuḥ karoty ātmasāt  
tat kiṃ tena niraṅkuśena vidhinā yan nirmitaṃ susthiram ||

> A person's health is uprooted by hundreds of diverse physical and mental afflictions; / where Fortune falls, calamities enter as if through open doors. / Death inevitably and quickly claims whatever is born, leaving it helpless. / What, then, has been created firm and stable by that unchecked Creator?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya~en-mt.3.33) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.47.3-2) — Sanskrit
- [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.15.33) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit

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