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9. Place not thy affe&ions too ftrongly on foe or 

 friend, on a fon or a kinfman, in war or in peace : 

 be thou even-minded towards all, if thou defireft fpee- 

 dily to attain the nature of Vishnu. 



10. Eight original mountains, and feven feas, 

 Brahme, Indra, the Sun, and Rubra, thefe are per- 

 manent: not thou, not I, nor this or that people : where- 

 fore then mould anxiety be raifed in our minds ? 



it. In thee, in me, in every other being, is Vishnu: 

 foolifhly art thou offended with me, not bearing my ap- 

 proach : fee every foul in thy own foul; in all places 

 lay afide a notion of diverfity. 



12. The boy fo long delights in his play, the youth 

 fo long purfues his damfel, the old man fo long broods 

 over uneafinefs, that no one meditates on the Supreme 

 Being. 



13, This is the inftruclion of learners delivered in 

 twelve diftinft ftanzas : what more can be done with 

 fuch, as this work fills not with devotion ? 



III. 



The following Elegy, which is chofen as a fpecimcn of 

 Arabick,* was compofed by a learned Philofopher 

 and Scholar, M'ir Muhammed Husain, before his 

 journey to Haidardbdd with Richard Johnson, 

 Efq> 



ma ansa Id ansa dllati 

 jdat ilayya dlai hadhar 

 alnaumu dthkala jafnahd 

 wadlkalbu tdra bihi dldkadr 



rasadat 



* Plate HI. and Plate V, 



