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A snake lay helpless in the box pining for lack of meat, A rat by night gnaws through the side, and yields his foe a treat, With strength recruited then the snake by that same hole escapes,— Behold how vain our efforts are! Fate all our fortune shapes.

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XLVII A captive snake half dead with fright Starved in a basket; till one night A silly mouse, who roamed abroad, A hole straight through the wicker gnawed, And in his very gullet jumped. The serpent felt his thin sides plumped, Took cheer, and wriggled out in turn. — Who knows all lucky falls in Fortune's urn?

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भग्नाशस्य करण्डपीडितसनोम्लनेन्द्रियस्य क्षुधा

कृत्वाखुर्विवरं स्वयं निपतितो नक्तं मुखे भोगिनः |

तृप्तस्तत्पिशितेन सत्वरमसौ तेनैव यातः पया

लोकाः पश्यत दैवमेव हि नृणां वृद्धौ क्षये कारणम् || ८४ ॥.

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LXXXIV . ( 4 ) पीडि ° पण्डि ● B. ०० ०० ; M. Bo.i.

( d ) लोकाः पश्यत ; खस्थस्तिष्ठति S. X. Bo.n. M. ( where त for वि . )

स्वस्थास्तिष्ठत Be . K. N. P. R. D. Bo . ) [ सुस्था Bo.n. ( B. ) ] कारणम् ;

● चाकुलम् . M. P. R.

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St. LXXXIV . is the box in which the snake charmer

keeps his snakes . This Stanza inculcates fatalism pure and simple ,

and it is not easy to understand why this is included among the

Stanzas of fater by the arrangers of the work . - S'árdúlavi

kridita .

Gopinath1914

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Gopinath1896

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Kosambi

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भग्नाशस्य करण्डपिण्डिततनोग्लनेन्द्रियस्य क्षुधा

कृत्वाखुर्विवरं स्वयं निपतितो नक्तं मुखे भोगिनः ।

तृप्तस्तत्पिशितेन सत्वरमसौ तेनैव यातः पथा

स्वस्थास् तिष्ठत दैवमेव हि नृणां वृद्धौ क्षये चाकुलम् ॥२६ ॥

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26 " ) Y2 भन्नायस्य . A2.8 B1 DE5 F1 H 2 ( m.v as in text ) W X Y1.3

पीडिततनोइ ( X नुइ ) . [ Ao . 1 com . पिंडिततनोः कहतां सरीर संकुडाणौ छइ ] . B1 Est

F1 ~ 4 H_J_S म्ला ( M3 मा ) नेंद्रियस्य ( for ग्लाने ) . H ● ) C वक्त्रे सुखं ( for नक्तं मुखे ) .

4 ) W + तृप्तस्यात्पिलितेन . F1 M3 . + तत्क्षणमसौ ( M 3 ' हो ) ( for सत्वरमसौ ) . F2 तथा

( for पथा ) . 4 ) Fs सुस्थास्तिष्ठत ; W ( We as in text ) लोकाः पश्यत ; Y1

स्वस्थस्तिष्ठति ; Ms स्वस्थं तिष्ठत . I शरणं ; J Y1 . 4 - 8 T G ( except G + ) M1 . 2.4.6 हि परं ;

Ms. जगतां ( for हि नृणां ) . C वृद्धौ परं ; J1 G2 वृद्धिक्षये ; J2 वृद्धौ क्षणे ; W + बृद्धक्षके .

C D F J S ( except Yo ) कारणं ( for चाकुलम् ) . I ( c.v. as in text ) धिम्धिग्वृथा पौरुष .

BIS . 4528 ( 2012 ) Bhartr ed . Bohl . 2. 92. Haeb 25 lith ed . I. 83 , II . 85 .

Galan 88. Paiic . ed . Koseg . II . 88. Suk . 6 ( Pet Ms. 13b ) . Subhāsh . 107 and 306 .

Vikramacaritra 177 ; SRB p . 94 " 109 ; SBH . 3143 ; SDK 5.71 2 ( p . 324 ) ;

SRK . p . 71.12 ( Bh . ) ; SHV . f . 64a ( Bh . ) and 80 & ; SN . 802 ; SSD . 4. f . 2b ;

SSV . 284 ; SMV . 8. 15 ; JSV . 264. 8 .