Another (!) Subhashita search (the trouble with ali)

[Jan Brzezinski]

Thank you. That was excellent. Now can anyone help
with vaa.na? What makes an "arrow" characteristic of a
sevakaadhama?

--- Roland Steiner <steiner at MAILER.UNI-MARBURG.DE>
wrote:
> On 23 Nov 99, at 3:52, Jan Brzezinski wrote:
>
> > The trouble with ali as "bee" is, in what way does
> a
> > bee characterize a type of sevakAdhama?
>
> Cf. Somadeva�s Kathaasaritsaagara, Lambaka 10,
> Tara"nga 5,
> stanza 118 (ed. Durgaaprasaad/Parab, 4th ed., Bombay
> 1930, p.
> 318):
>         av.rttika.m prabhu.m bh.rtyaa apu.spa.m
> bhramaraas tarum |
>         ajala.m ca saro ha.msaa mu~ncanty api
> ciro.sitaa.h | |
>         ``Servants [leave] a master who has no means
> of livelihood,
> bees [leave] a flowerless tree, and geese leave a
> lake without
> water even after a long habitation."
>
> With kind regards,
> Roland Steiner
>

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