1879.] G. A. Grierson—Some Further Notes on Kalidasa. AT 
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NS Ac . 
aa eats: arate are | 
Waguaaast afaat wafer I 
aur: fyata vad ay Taare | 
BATT UF FRIY WX VF ATL! 9 Il 
(1.) “He who has nothing wishes to have a hundred ; and he who 
owns a hundred, desires a thousand, while the lord of a thousand wishes for 
ten thousand. ‘The possessor of ten thousand would be a king, while the 
king desires to be an emperor. 
(2.) ‘An emperor wishes to rule the gods like Indra, while Indra 
aspires to the power of Brahman. Brahman himself wishes to obtain the 
throne of Siva, and even Siva, that of Vishnu.* What being has ever 
reached the limit of desire ? 
(3.) “ You have wandered over far and rugged countries, but you 
obtained no fruit: you abandoned your caste, and all your pride of birth, 
but your servitude was fruitless. 
(4.) “You laid aside your pride, and ate like a crow,—fearfully, in 
another’s house,—and yet you are not satisfied.. To-day even your thirst 
dwells in vile and wicked actions. 
(5.) “The bee deserts the fragrant jasmine and seeks the amaranth. 
Perchance he leaves it too, and approaches the champaka, and then the 
lotus. 
(6.) “Imprisoned therein by fate and night, the foolish creature weeps, 
A fool may obtain discomfiture, but never contentment. 
(7.) ‘Saints pass their lives enjoying roots and fruit. Elephants live 
on dried grass, and are mighty. Snakes quaff the wind, nor are they want- 
ing in strength. Contentment alone should be the most precious wealth 
of man.” 
Much of the preceding is trivial, and, of course, none of it can lay 
claim to any historical value. My aim has been a very humble one, and I 
shall be happy, if I am thought to have only moderately come up to it. 
Hyen in a backward country like Tirhit, the old class of pandits is fast 
dying out, and is being supplanted by men with a smattering of English 
and Urdi, and only a moderate book-knowledge of Sanskrit. The older 
pandits acknowledge the change with sorrow, and say that even the women 
who most conserve the purity of the language, are beginning to use Yavané 
* Vishnu is appropriately placed last, as being absolutely fama “free from 
desire,” 
