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 adverse fate there are many exhortations to firmness and constancy. The following is a stanza of this kind from the Panchatantra:—


 * In fortune and calamity
 * The great ever remain the same:
 * The sun is at its rising red,
 * Red also when about to set.

Collected in the ethico-didactic works which have been described in this chapter, and scattered throughout the rest of the literature, the notions held by the Brahmans in the sphere of moral philosophy have never received a methodical treatment, as in the Pāli literature of Buddhism. In the orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy, to which we now turn, they find no place.