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Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala

Creator: Anonymous, Dutt, Toru, 1856-1877, Kalidasa, Valmiki
Translator: Arnold, Edwin, Sir, 1832-1904, Griffiths, R. T. H., Monier-Williams, Monier, Sir, 1819-1899
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'I live,' began Long-ear, 'on the Ganges, bathing, and eating no flesh, practising the moon-penance,[8] like a Bramacharya. The birds that resort thither constantly praise your worship to me as one wholly given to the study of morality, and worthy of all trust; and so I came here to learn law from thee, Sir, who art so deep gone in learning and in years. Dost thou, then, so read the law of strangers as to be ready to slay a guest? What say the books about the householder?-- 'Bar thy door not to the stranger, be he friend or be he foe, For the tree will shade the woodman while his axe doth lay it low,' And if means fail, what there is should be given with kind words, as-- 'Greeting fair, and room to rest in; fire, and water from the well-- Simple gifts--are given freely in the house where good men dwell,'-- and without respect of person-- 'Young, or bent with many winters; rich, or poor, whate'er thy guest, Honor him for thine own honor--better is he than the best,' Else comes the rebuke-- 'Pity them that ask thy pity: who art thou to stint thy hoard,
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Title: Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 Author: Richard F. Burton Release Date: September, 2002 [Etext #3445] [This file was first posted on December 30, 2001] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 by Richard F. Burton ******This file should be named b1001108.txt or b1001108.zip***** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, b1001118.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, b1001108a.txt This etext was scanned by JC Byers and proofread by JC Byers,
When the holy moon shines equal on the leper and the lord!' And that other, too, 'When thy gate is roughly fastened, and the asker turns away, Thence he bears thy good deeds with him, and his sins on thee doth lay For verily, 'In the house the husband ruleth, men the Brahmans "master" call; Agni is the Twice-born Master--but the guest is lord of all,' "To these weighty words Grey-pate answered, 'Yes! but cats like meat, and there are young birds here, and therefore I said, go,' 'Sir,' said the Cat (and as he spoke he touched the ground, and then his two ears, and called on Krishna to witness to his words), 'I that have overcome passion, and practised the moon-penance, know the Scriptures; and howsoever they contend, in this primal duty of abstaining from injury they are unanimous. Which of them sayeth not-- 'He who does and thinks no wrong-- He who suffers, being strong-- He whose harmlessness men know--