Saturday, September 03, 2022

 

A Dying Lamp

An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry: Vidyākara's "Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa" translated by Daniel H.H. Ingalls (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965 = Harvard Oriental Series, 44), p. 396 (number 1523):
Suddenly it leaps to life
and then falls back in darkness:
the mind of an old man
is like the flame of a dying lamp.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 3:59 PM


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