Shatakatraya 3.8
Śatakatraya 3.8
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- Sanskrit
3.8
balibhir mukham ākrāntaṃ palitenāṅkitaṃ śiraḥ |
gātrāṇi śithilāyante tṛṣṇaikā taruṇāyate ||
viveka-vyākośe vidadhati same śāmyati tṛṣā
pariṣvaṅge tuṅge prasaratitarāṃ sā pariṇatā |
jarājīrṇaiśvarya-grasana-gahanākṣepa-kṛpaṇastṛṣāpātraṃ
yasyāṃ bhavati marutām apy adhipatiḥ ||
The face is covered with wrinkles; the head is marked with grey hair;
the limbs grow slack; craving alone grows youthful!
When discernment blossoms and produces calm, thirst subsides;
yet in the heights of attachment, fully matured, it spreads all the more—
that thirst in which, abject with the torment of swallowing ruined fortunes,
even the lord of the gods becomes a vessel of craving.
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- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Linked texts (2)
- Kāvyasaṅgraha — Sanskrit
- Bhartṛhariśataka — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit