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OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT
 
THE STORY OF PRAHLADA
 
कोन्वर्थतृष्णां विसृजेत् प्राणेभ्योऽपि य ईप्सितः
यं क्रीणात्यसुभिः प्रेष्ठैस्तस्करस्सेवको वणिक् ।
 
COM.
 
SL
 
"Who will renounce his desire for
wealth, wealth which one desires to pos-
sess more than life, wealth which the
thief, the servant and the merchant buy
with their dear life ?
 
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• औपस्थ्यजैह्वयं बहुमन्यमानः
कथं विरज्येत दुरन्तमोहः ।
सर्वत्र तापत्रयदुःखितात्मा
निर्विद्यते न स्वकुटुम्बरामः ॥
 
" How shall he become detached, he
who esteems (only) the pleasures of sex
and the palate and is in an endless delu-
sion? Suffering with the threefold
miseries * allfaround, he who delights in
his family never gets disgusted (with his
life).
 
'ततो विदूरात्परिहृत्य दैत्याः
दैत्येषु सङ्गं विषयात्मकेषु ।
उपेत नारायणमादिदेवं
स मुक्तसङ्गै रिषितोऽपवर्गः ॥
 
* Mental ills (Adhyatmika), physical ills (Adhi-
bhautika( and calamities caused by forces of Nature,
Fate and the gods (Adhidaivika).
 
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