SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Wealth

The Beauty of Giving

Be not a miser of thy strength and store;

Oft in a wounded grace more beauty is.

The jewel which the careful gravers score;

The sweet fair girl-wife broken with bridal bliss,

The rut-worn tusker, the autumnal stream

With its long beaches dry and slender flood;

The hero wreathed with victory's diadem,

Adorned with wounds and glorious with his blood;

The moon's last disc; rich men of their bright dross,

By gifts disburdened, fairer shine by loss.

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