OF THE ANCIENT HINDUS. 



291 



243. Brahmanasyapi capattau ksatradharmena vartatah, 

 prasastam jivitam loke ksatram hi brahniasambhavam. 485 



244. Adharmah ksatriyasyaisa yacchayyamaranam bhavet, 

 visrjan slesmapittani krpanam paridevayan. 175 



245. Aviksatena dehena pralayam yo' dhigacchati 

 ksatriyo nasya tat karma prasamsanti puravidah. 176 



246. Na grhe maranam sastam ksatriyanam vina ranat, 490 " 

 saundiranam asaundiram adbarmam krpanam hi yat. 177 



247. Ranesu kadanam krtva jnatibbib parivaritah 

 sastrastraib suvinirbhinnah ksatriyo vadbam arbati. 178 



243. Even for a Brahman who lives during misfortune according Prescript 



to the Ksatriya rule, it is in the world a laudable Ksatiiyas 

 living, for a Ksatriya is sprung from Brahma. 



244. There would be a demerit to a Ksatriya whose death 



would be on a couch, emitting phlegm and bile and 

 wailing piteously. 



245. Those persons who are acquainted with the past do not 



praise the death of that Ksatriya who meets his disso- 

 lution with unwounded bod} 7 . 



246. The death of Ksatriyas in a house without a combat is 



not praised ; it would be despicable, unrighteous, and 

 miserable. 



247. A Ksatriya has earned (a noble) death, when, surrounded 



by his relations, he has made a slaughter (of enemies) 

 on the battle fields, and is well pierced with arms and 

 missiles. 



15 See Mahabharata, Santiparva, Rajadharma, XCVII, 23. 



76 See Mahabharata, Santiparva, Kajadharma, XCVII, 24. 



77 See ibidem, 25 ; instead of sastam tata, and instead of vina ranat prasas- 



yate. 



78 See ibidem, 28 ; but the second half of the sloka differs, for instead of it 



we read tiksnaih sastrairabhiklistah ksatriyo mrtyum arhati. Thi 

 change in the reading tiksnaih sastraih for sastrdstraih is significant. 



