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 OR THE HUNDRED VERSES OX RENUNCIATION 2g

��etc. Knowledge free from defect not been mastered ; ^'tfg^Hlflr means 'free from Doctrines incapable of proof/ f^r ^T etc. riches are earned. U^^TpT etc. Services to parents not been rendered with single-mindedness. etc. . Like crows, all the time has been I>a.ssed in greediness for food, i. e. maintenance, obtainable from others,,

[These three stanzas (nos. 45, 46, 47) strike a


 * "a.ther anomalous note. Here the poet personates

a. man whose life has been, like the lamp burning

iriL a deserted abode, a thorough failure. Such a

ixian is looking back on his youthful years of uiv

ttutigated worthlessness. But are the reflections he

Is making here typical of those who are at the

tlireshold of true renunciation ? By no means are

they typical. The poet here simply takes up a

[particular case of an aspirant after renunciation

"which may just serve his poetical purposes best

This aspirant has had in his youth no taste of glory

either as a pious man, a dutiful son, a scholarly

student, a brave warrior or a lover of women. He

appears to lament here that none of the fourfold

aims of human life (spwji, religious merit; unf

wealth ; gfflW, fulfilment of desires, and TNf, final

salvation) has been pursued by him in the past with

any the slightest success. Perhaps be means that

that is best calculated to impress on his mind the

^vanity of all the ends of a householder's life. But

"this impression of vanity and consequent non-

attachment may very well come, and come witfa

perhaps greater completeness, to men who had the

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