Shatakatraya 3.21

English (machine translation) 3.21

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3.21

If one's wretched wife were not to be seen, distressed without food, / her worn garment tugged continually by pitiable, hungry, crying children / with forlorn faces, / what high-minded man would say 'Give!' for the sake of his own wretched belly, / with faltering throat and choked, dying syllables out of fear that his begging would be refused?

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Śatakatraya — Bhartṛhari (poet), Sanskrit