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VISH2VU.
XX, 46.
burnt-offerings, nor prayers will save a man who is
in the bonds of death or old age.
46. An impending evil cannot be averted even
by a hundred precautions; what reason then for you
to complain ?
47. Even as a calf finds his mother among a
thousand cows, an act formerly done is sure to find
the perpetrator.
48. Of existing beings the beginning is unknown,
the middle (of their career) is known, and the end
again unknown; what reason then for you to com-
plain ?
49. As the body of mortals undergoes (succes-
sively the vicissitudes of) infancy, youth, and old
age, even so will it be transformed into another
body (hereafter); a sensible man is not mistaken
about that.
50. As a man puts on new clothes in this world,
throwing aside those which he formerly wore, even
so the self of man puts on new bodies, which are in
accordance with his acts (in a former life).
51. No weapons will hurt the self of man, no fire
burn it, no waters moisten it, and no wind dry it up.
52. It is not to be hurt, not to be burnt, not to
be moistened, and not to be dried up; it is im-
perishable, perpetual, unchanging, immovable, with-
out beginning.
acts of liberality save him, as the use of the particle implies.’
(Nand.)
47. This proverb is also found in the Mahabharata XII, 6760,
Pan^atantra II, 134, and other works. See Bbhtlingk, Ind.
Spriiche, 5114.
48. This proverb is also found in the Bhagavadgita II, 28.
See Bbhtlingk, Ind. Spriiche, 704.
50. Regarding transmigration, see below, XLIV, XLV.
VISH2VU.
XX, 46.
burnt-offerings, nor prayers will save a man who is
in the bonds of death or old age.
46. An impending evil cannot be averted even
by a hundred precautions; what reason then for you
to complain ?
47. Even as a calf finds his mother among a
thousand cows, an act formerly done is sure to find
the perpetrator.
48. Of existing beings the beginning is unknown,
the middle (of their career) is known, and the end
again unknown; what reason then for you to com-
plain ?
49. As the body of mortals undergoes (succes-
sively the vicissitudes of) infancy, youth, and old
age, even so will it be transformed into another
body (hereafter); a sensible man is not mistaken
about that.
50. As a man puts on new clothes in this world,
throwing aside those which he formerly wore, even
so the self of man puts on new bodies, which are in
accordance with his acts (in a former life).
51. No weapons will hurt the self of man, no fire
burn it, no waters moisten it, and no wind dry it up.
52. It is not to be hurt, not to be burnt, not to
be moistened, and not to be dried up; it is im-
perishable, perpetual, unchanging, immovable, with-
out beginning.
acts of liberality save him, as the use of the particle implies.’
(Nand.)
47. This proverb is also found in the Mahabharata XII, 6760,
Pan^atantra II, 134, and other works. See Bbhtlingk, Ind.
Spriiche, 5114.
48. This proverb is also found in the Bhagavadgita II, 28.
See Bbhtlingk, Ind. Spriiche, 704.
50. Regarding transmigration, see below, XLIV, XLV.