(i.e. their positions) appear like particles of grass
Do not, oh Sudhu, set your heart on any ephemeral enjoyment other than that.
स नम्या नगरी महान्स नृपतिः सामन्तचक्रं च त- |
41. That lovely city, that grand monarch, and that circle of feudatory Kings at his side, that cabinet of shrewd counsellors of his and those beauties with moon-like faces, that group of wayward princes, those court-minstrels and their songs of praise--under whose power all this fleeted away and became objects of memory, to that Kala (time or the principle of charge) salutation ! [उद्वृत्त -Another reading is उद्रिक्त which means haughty'.]
यत्रानेकः क्वचिदपि गृहे तत्र तिंस्ट्यथैको |
42. Where in some home (or, a square in the case of a checkerboard) there once were many, there is now one, and where there was one or many successively, there is zone at the end (of