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# Shatakatraya 3.70

Śatakatraya 3.70

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.70)

pātālam āviśasi yāsi nabho vilaṅghya  
diṅ-maṇḍalaṃ bhramasi mānasa cāpalena |  
bhrāntyāpi jātu vimalaṃ katham ātmanīnaṃ  
na brahma saṃsarasi virvṛtimm eṣi yena ||

> You enter the netherworld, you leap across the sky, / you wander over the circle of the quarters through fickleness, O mind! / Why do you not, even by chance, turn to that spotless Brahman / beneficial to the Self, through which you might attain bliss?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya~en-mt.3.70) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (3)

- [Rasakalpadruma (Jagannātha Miśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasakalpadruma-jagannathamisra.38.144) — Jagannātha Miśra 1600, Sanskrit
- [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.47.68) — Sanskrit
- [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.15.70) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit

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