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# Shatakatraya 3.44

Śatakatraya 3.44

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.44)

rātriḥ saiva punaḥ sa eva divaso matvā mudhā jantavo  
dhāvanty udyaminas tathaiva nibhṛta-prārabdha-tat-tat-kriyāḥ |  
vyāpāraiḥ punar-ukta-bhūta-viṣayair itthaṃ vidhenāmunā  
saṃsāreṇa kadarthitā vayam aho mohān na lajjāmahe ||

> Thinking 'It is that very night again, that very same day,' people run in vain, / energetic and secretly engaged in various undertakings just as before; / through affairs whose objects have become mere repetition in this manner, / we are tormented by the cycle of worldly existence—alas, out of delusion we feel no shame!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya~en-mt.3.44) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (3)

- [Rasakalpadruma (Jagannātha Miśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasakalpadruma-jagannathamisra.38.121) — Jagannātha Miśra 1600, Sanskrit
- [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.47.41) — Sanskrit
- [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.15.15) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit

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