Shatakatraya 3.76

Śatakatraya 3.76

Language: Sanskrit

3.76

tapasyantaḥ santaḥ kim adhinivasāmaḥ sura-nadīṃ
guṇodārān dārān uta paricarāmaḥ savinayam |
pibāmaḥ śāstraughānuta-vividha-kāvyāmṛta-rasān
na vidmaḥ kiṃ kurmaḥ katipaya-nimeṣāyuṣi jane ||

Shall we dwell along the river of the gods, practicing ascetic austerity as virtuous men? / Or shall we court with reverence wives noble in virtues? / Or shall we drink the floods of treatises and the ambrosial nectar of diverse poems? / When life lasts but a few winks of an eye, we know not what to do!
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Kāvyasaṅgraha — Sanskrit
Bhartṛhariśataka — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit