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# Shatakatraya 3.74

Śatakatraya 3.74

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.74)

varṇaṃ sitaṃ śirasi vīkṣya śiroruhāṇāṃ  
sthānaṃ jarā-paribhavasya tadā pumāṃsam |  
āropitāṃsthi-śatakaṃ parihṛtya yānti  
caṇḍāla-kūpam iva dūrataraṃ taruṇyaḥ ||

> Seeing the white color of the hair on his head, / the sign of age's humiliation, / young women shun that man from afar, / as though he were an outcaste's well hung with hundreds of bones.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya~en-mt.3.74) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.47.71) — Sanskrit
- [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.16.74) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit

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