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mighty arms of mortal enemies, suddenly crushes his
world of foes, if he is filled with courage by thee.
 
19
 
Of those who are faithfully attached to the service
of thy feet, like patients making use of medicinal
drugs, the limbs become resplendent as gold and the
eyes dilated like lotuses even though their bodies are
eaten up by vermins moving about the interior of
their mouths and in their entrails or attached to their
flesh and skin, melting with pus and horrible im-
purities, the effect of diseases consequent on a life of
wickedness.
 
20
 
He in whose bowl of hearing the mendicant dole
of learning imparted by teachers has not found a
resting place, and who reduced to speechlessness
the assemblies of the learned through his lack of the
wealth of instruction received-even such a one,
having obtained, through the might of his devotion
to thee, the mastery of speech elevated by the wealth.
of embellishments in the shape of figures of speech of
all sorts, dethrones his adversaries in royal courts.
 
21
 
He who is embrowned by dust through sleeping
on the ground, whose body is bare owing to the rag
that covers his loins being tattered, who for the sake
of a morsel of food in a potsherd squeezes out the lives*
 
The allusion is to the custom of employing low-class men to kill lice and
other vermins to be found in bedsteads, which are generally placed out of
doors for this purpose. In up-country the cry Khatmal khilaoge is well
known.