6.
If one not doing evil associates with one who does, he is suspected of evil and undergoes disgrace.[1]
7.
The man who wraps putrid flesh with sacrificial grass[2] finds that the grass itself emits a fetid odour; even such is the case by association with a fool.
8.
The man who wraps the taggara with the palâsa findsthat the leaves themselves emit a fragrance; even such is the case by association with the learned.[3]
9.
A man deteriorates who associates with one who is vile; associating with an equal ever prevents deterioration; a wise man who associates with one more exalted progresses; serve, therefore, one who is superior to oneself.
10.
One who seizes the property of another, one who is
- By reason of its connection with the bad,
- Therefore the amba has bitter fruit.'
- ↑ A South-Indian proverb says, "If you drink milk under a date-tree, they will say it is toddy."
- ↑ The Poa cynosuroides. It is frequently referred to as the grass of good omen. It was customary for Brahmans, before reading the Vedas, to sit on the grass and purify both hands by rubbing them with it. See "Institutes of Manu," Bk. ii.
- ↑ See Lokanîti, 40.
The king, having heard his words, caused all the nimbas and paggavallis to be cut off and their roots to be eradicated, the sour earth entirely to be carried away and sweet earth to be brought to it, and the amba to be tended with milk-water, sugar-water, and fragrant water. By the union with sweet juices it again became sweet." —Fausbull's, "Five Jâtakas."
