Saturday, June 18, 2022
An Awful Tigress
Bhartrihari, "Heedlessness," tr. Arthur William Ryder, Relatives, Being Further Verses Translated from the Sanskrit (San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1919), p. 6:
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Old age, an awful tigress, growls:The same, tr. B. Hale Wortham, The Śatakas of Bhartṛihari (1886; rpt. Abingdon: Routledge, 2000), p. 55:
And shafts of sickness pierce the bowels;
Life's water trickles from its jar—
'Tis strange how thoughtless people are.
Old age menaces the body like a tiger; diseases carry it off like enemies; life slips away like water out of a broken jar; and yet man lives an evil life in the world. Truly this is marvellous.
