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# Encyclopaedia of Sanskrit subhāṣitas 255

Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha 255

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [255](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.mahasubhasitasangraha.255)

aṅkādhiropitamṛgaś candramā mṛgalāñchanaḥ /  
kesarī niṣṭhurakṣiptamṛgayūtho mṛgādhipaḥ //

> The moon, placing the deer in its lap, is merely 'marked by a deer'; / the lion, having fiercely scattered a herd of deer, is 'lord of deer'.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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