Chapter (অধ্যায়): BHARTRIHARI'S VERSES ON RENUNCIATION PAGE-317Page: 317 of 548
Those beautiful cities.
Those mighty monarchs.
Those powerful nobles.
Those learned assemblies.
Those moon‑faced women.
Those proud princes.
And those that sang their praises__
They have all been swept away from the memory
of man.
My salutation, therefore, is to Time who works
all these!
(Verse 41)
The sun by his coming and going every hour
is lessening the life of man.
Time flies without our knowledge,
Crushed as we are by the load of many works.
Seeing the evils of Birth, Old Age, Danger, and Death
We are not afraid.
Ah me, drinking the wine of delusion,
The world has become mad.
(Verse 43)
I have not learnt that knowledge which defeats all
opponents!
Nor have been able, at the point of the sword,
Which can cut thro' an elephant's back,
To send our glory even unto the skies;
Nor, under the light of the full moon,
Drunk the nectar of the budding lips of the Beloved.
My youth is gone fruitless
Like a lamp in an empty house.
(Verse 46)