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Monkeys show affection even to one of unknown family and character. They do not cry for their own sake; they cry for the sake of others. This verse p...
Such innocent ones, like fledgling birds, are devoured by cunning cats. This verse warns the naive and undisciplined. It compares people who lack sit...
Members of an enemy's coalition should be broken apart by using agents who are aware of their faults but are unknown to them, who are paid by both sid...
Those who seek true affection (sadbhāvaṃ) even from her (a prostitute) to whom one's self is given along with wealth, though her name and caste are un...
Those who, not knowing the secret of scholarship, bear pride in the path of poetry, are like those who, without studying a snake-charmer's mantras, be...
For an astrologer, whose predictions are subject to unknown future flaws (like thieves), are ever-perishable, and are a cause for ridicule—what is the...
Let the speech, its greatness unknown, intoxicated with aesthetic sentiment (rasa), praise Shiva. Where is a breach of propriety found in women due to...
O Moon! Placing on your lap a baby deer whose mother is unknown, you still protect it today. Who, indeed, is as righteous (dharmātmā) as you? A poeti...
He who goes to an enemy's country without knowing about its supplies, rains, water, and crops, does not return to his own country again. A maxim of m...
One should abandon from afar those noose-like physicians who do not know the true essence of the science but are devoted only to the letter of the tex...
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