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1 6 THE VAIRAGYA-SATAKAM

��25. Or is it that herbs and roots 1 grovy caves, and streams on hill-sides hav disappeared, or that branches of trees bee luscious fruits and yielding barks are destroyed, that the faces of wretches, perf devoid of good breeding, are found to their eye-brows dancing like creepers in wind of an arrogance which their scanty c ing eked out with hardship engenders in th

�� ��26. Therefore, now, accepting fruits roots, ordained as sacred, for the most ei able means of maintenance, and (so also earth (laid on) with verdant leafy twigs for bed, oh, rise and repair to the forest, w even the name is not constantly heard of ignoble rich whose minds are stultifiec indiscretion and whose speech is delii with the maladies of wealth.

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