Bhartrihari citations

Bhartrihari est le nom d'un poète indien d'expression sanskrite et d'un grammairien du même nom . Pendant longtemps, ces deux auteurs furent confondus. On tend aujourd'hui à les dissocier. Wikipedia

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Bhartrihari: Citations en anglais

“When I knew but a little, I was blinded by pride as an elephant is blinded by rut from excitement, and my mind was puffed up with the idea that I knew everything. When, however, I gradually gained knowledge through the contact of the wise I found I was a fool; and the pride, which had possessed me like a fever, left me.”

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Nītiśataka 8; translation of K.M. Joglekar
Śatakatraya

“Life is flowing away like water running out from a leaky vessel.”

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Vairagyaśatakam 38 https://archive.org/stream/Vairagya.Satakam.of.Bhartrihari#page/n28/mode/1up
Śatakatraya

“In opulence the heart of great men is as soft as that of a lotus flower, but in adversity the same hardens like a rock of a big mountain.”

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Nītiśataka 65
Śatakatraya

“Those men are good who study the good of others without regarding themselves. Those men are ordinary men who, while they benefit others, do not neglect their own interests. Those men are demons who destroy another's good for their own profit. What shall we call those who aimlessly destroy that which is another's?”

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Nītiśataka 74; translated by B. Hale Wortham
Śatakatraya

“The maid my true heart loves would not my true love be;
She seeks another man; another maid loves he;
And me another maid her own true love would see:
Oh, fie on her and him and Love and HER and me!”

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Nītiśataka 2
Variant translation from K.M. Joglekar:
That woman about whom I constantly meditate has no affection for me; she, however, yearns after another who is attached to someone else; while a certain woman pines away for me. Fie on her, on him, on the God of Love, on that woman, and on myself.
Śatakatraya

“The sun opens the lotuses; the moon illuminates the beds of water-lilies; the cloud pours forth its water unasked: even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others.”

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Nītiśataka 73; B. Hale Wortham translation
Śatakatraya

“A person's ears get glorified by listening to scriptures and not by wearing ear-rings, hands are adorned by giving alms to the poor and not by wearing bracelets.”

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Nītiśataka 71
Śatakatraya