OR THE HUNDRED VERSES ON RENUNCIATION 5
quest of riches ) ; though we have suffered in- clemencies of weather, cold and heat so diffi- cult to bear, still it is no religious austerities that we have undergone ; with subdued vital forces, night and day have we brooded on money and not on the feet of Shiva ; we have performed thus those very acts which the Munis ( saintly recluses) do perform, but of their good effect we have deprived ourselves
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��[ Here there is an ironical pun on the participles jJrfiT and flHT, the former being used both in the sense of " enjoyed" and "eaten up", and the latter both in the sense of "(austerities) performed" and " heated." Similarly the participle ^faji 1 means both " reduced in force" and " stricken down with age." The effect of course cannot be preserved in translation.]
7. The worldly pleasures have not been enjoyed ( ^FT i* e. enjoyed ) by us, but we our- selves have been devoured ( ^JTBT i. e. eaten up or dissipated ) ; no religious austerities have been gone through (SHFT), but we ourselves have become scorched (enTP i< e. by the auster- ities of grief or anxiety ) ; time Is not gone ( aniT'j being ever-present and infinite ), but it is we who are gone ( sflRrn because of ap-
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