44 THE VAIRAGYA-SATAKAM.
teeth fall out,- the eye-sight, is lost,idqafness increases, the mouth slavers, relatives do, not value ( one's ) words, the wife does not nurse ; and alas ! even the son of a man of worn-out age 'turns hostile.
��74. Seeing the grey hairs on the head of a man, emblematic of discomfiture by old age^. youthful women at once fly away from hi in, as if from a Chandala's ( the untouchable In caste ) well whereon is placed a structure of bones.! ,
be taken to qualify
��or ^T^. If it be taken as qualifying the former, it would mean ; this frame-work of bones., ( meaning the old man),
[ It was a custom in former times with the Chandalas to line their well with bones for orna- mentation.]
�� ��75. As long this body Is free from deseas^
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