Bhartṛhari K470

Ryder

            
            LIFE
            
            Here is the sound of lutes, and there are screams and wailing;
            
            Here winsome girls, there bodies old and failing;
            
            Here scholars' talk, there drunkards' mad commotion—
            
            Is life a nectared or a poisoned potion?

Tawney

            
            Here sounds the tuneful lyre, and there loud shrieks appal,
            
            Here is a sage discourse, and there a drunken brawl,
            
            Here maids in prime of youth, there wrinkled forms you meet;
            
            Of what consists our life, of bitter or of sweet?

Telang

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कचिद्वीणावाद्यं क्वचिदपि च हाहेति रुदितं

क्वचिद्विद्वगोष्ठी क्वचिदपि सुरामत्तकलहः ।

क्वचिद्रामा रम्याः क्वचिदपि गलत्कुष्टवपुषो

न जाने संसार : किममृतमयः किं विषमयः ॥ १२ ॥

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St. XII .- = conversation . It also means assembly but

the former is preferable here . - S'ikhariņi ,

Gopinath1914

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Gopinath1896

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