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 THE VAIRAGYA-SATAk'ABt

��away bodily strength and death steals away this dear life, ah friend ! nothing and nowhere else is there good for the wise in this world excepting the practice of austerities.

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��7$. When honour has faded, wealth has become ruined, those who sue for favours have departed in disappointment, friends have dwindled away, retainers have left and youth has gradually decayed, there remains only one thing proper for the wise residence somewhere in a grove on the side of a valley of the mountain whose rocks are purified by the waters of the Ganges.

[ 3f|W3r the Ganges is so called on account , of the myth that Rishi Jahnu drank it up ||d then disgorged it through his ear or thigh, whin ,- in its course towards the Bay of Bengal aftcA ifjg descent from the heavens it overflowed *the sacrificial platform of the Rishi. Examination of the traditional place where the Rishi is supposed to have lived in ancient times, suggests the likelihood of the course of the river

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