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UTTARADHYAYANA.
Though one believe in the Law, he will rarely practise it; for people are engrossed by pleasures; Gautama, &c. (20)
When your body grows old, and your hair turns white, the power of your ears decreases ; Gautama, &c. (21)
When your body grows old, and your hair turns white, the power of your eyes decreases; Gautama, &c. (22)
When your body grows old, and your hair turns white, the power of your nose decreases. (23)
When your body grows old, and your hair turns white, the power of your tongue decreases. (24)
When your body grows old, and your hair turns white, the power of your touch decreases. (25)
When your body grows old, and your hair turns white, all your powers decrease. (26)
Despondency, the king's evil, cholera, mortal diseases of many kinds befall you; your body wastes and decays; Gautama, &c. (27)
Cast aside from you all attachments, as the (leaves of) a lotus let drop off the autumnal 1 water, exempt from every attachment, Gautama, be careful all the while! (28)
Give up your wealth and your wife; you have entered the state of the houseless; do not, as it were, return to your vomit; Gautama, &c. (29)
Leave your friends and relations, the large fortune you have amassed; do not desire them a second time; Gautama, &c. (30)
1 This attribute is here given to water,' because in autumn the water becomes pure, and even the purest water has no hold upon the leaves of a lotus; thus a saint should give up even the best and dearest attachment.
