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the stomach when hungry, a man of self- respect would wander from door to door with a broken pot (in hand) having its edgeTcovered with white cloth, away in e2Lte_rj^me_wj3od- lands^or holy places of which the approaches are grey all over with the smoke of sacnficial- fi,res tended by Brahmanas versed in ^ritualistic- /fnceties, and thus preserve the pranas, rather than live (like) a beggar from day to day among those who are socially one's equals.

[ It should be remembered that living on alms for a man of true renunciation is held in high esteem in India, for no social merit can be higher than giving up the world for the sake of the national ideal of spirituality. ]

��24.. Ah ! is it that those Himalayan soli* tudes, cooled by the liquid spray of Ganges waves and abounding in beautiful rocky flats such as are the haunts of Vidyadharas, are all engulfed in destruction that men in dis- grace hang on others for their maintenance?

[ The Vidyadharas are unearthly beings with superhuman skill in arts, specially music. ]

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