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26 THU VAIRAGYA-SATAKAM
��42. Where in some home ( or, a square In the case of a checkerboard ) there once were many, there is now one, and where there was one or many successively, there is none at the end (of the game), -this is the process in which expert KUla plays (his game) on the checkerboard of this world with living Beings as the pieces and casting the two dice of day and night
��43. Daily with the rising and setting of the sun, life shortens, and time (I e* its flight) is not felt on account of affairs heavily burdened with manifold activities. Neither is liar produced at beholding birth, death, old age and sufferings. (Alas,) the world is be- come mad by drinking the stupefying wine of delusion.
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