OLD AGE.
From tkr Dhammapada. •thb* body is wasted, fall of sickness and frmU: this heap of corraption breaks to pieces, life indeed ends in death. Tbe brilliant chariofcs of kings are destroyed, tbe body also approaches destruction, bat the virtue of good people never _4>pro_cbe-s destruction. A man wbo has learnt Bttle, grows old aa the ox grows; his flesh increases, but his knowledge does not increase. Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a coarse of many b_rt_u«. so long as I do not find him: and painful Ls birth again and ntain. Bat now, i_Aer of tte tabernacle, thou hast been *een; thou shak not make op this ____r__—le again. All thy rafters are broken, thy ndge-pole is sundered: the mind, approaching the Eternal (hirvana). has attained to the extinction of all desiresMen who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish likeold herons in a lake witboat fish. Men who have not observed proper dis--pline, and have not gained treasure, in theirYoutb, lfc*, like broken bones, sighing after tbe past.
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Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6878, 10 October 1887, Page 3
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186OLD AGE. Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6878, 10 October 1887, Page 3
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