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 ing examples will enable the reader to judge for himself:—

Verse

336. This world possesses the greatness of one who yesterday was and to-day is not.

351. Inglorious births are produced by the confusion (of mind) which considers those things to be real which are not real.

375. In the acquisition of property, every thing favourable becomes unfavourable, and (on the other hand) every thing unfavourable becomes favourable, (through the power of fate).

397. How is it that any one can remain without learning, even until his death, when (to the learned man) every country is his own (country) and every town his own (town)?

500. A fox can kill a fearless, warrior-faced elephant, if it go into mud in which its legs sink down. Rh