The Hindu Tradition: Readings in Oriental Thought by Edited by Ainslie T. Embree General Editor: William Theodore de Bary

Author:Edited by Ainslie T. Embree General Editor: William Theodore de Bary
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

Thus, replied Speckle-neck: I was pecking about one day in the Deccan forest, and saw an old tiger sitting newly bathed on the bank of a pool, like a Brahman, and with holy kuskus-grass in his paws.

“Ho! ho! ye travellers,” he kept calling out, “take this golden bangle!”

Presently a covetous fellow passed by and heard him.

“Ah!” thought he, “this is a bit of luck—but I must not risk my neck for it either.

“Good things come not out of bad things; wisely leave a longed-for ill.

Nectar being mixed with poison serves no purpose but to kill.

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