A History of Sanskrit Literature c15.s1.20

c15.s1.20

‘For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life’s end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor, he retires behind the curtain of death.’ The utter unsatisfactoriness of life is insisted upon: