సిగ్గు వారలమ'ని సృష్టి లోపలి వారు
వెర్రి వేమని గని వెరుగు పడిరి;
తనకు గలుగు సిగ్గు దైవ మె'రుంగురా! వి. 45
విడువ ముడువ లేక, కుడువ కట్టగ లేక;
వెరపు లేక, విద్యనొ' రయ లేక;
వెడల లేని వాని నడు పీనుగం దురో. వి. 46
లేని కాలమునకు, లేని మనమునొందు;
యీనిన పులి రీతి నె'రుగకుండు
కఠిన బుద్ధికి,ట్లు కలిమే'మి గల్గురా. వి. 47
45. Those who consider themselves decent and reputable, look 'upon the mad *[1] Vemana with astonishment; ah, the deity knows his real humility, while he appears only to deride others!
46. He who can neither loose nor close his purse, who will neither feed nor clothe himself; devoid of genius and un-polished by learning; he who thus walks, is like a walking corpse.
47. In time of poverty, the heart itself becomes poor; and senseless as a cubbed tigress ;†[2] how should any good accrue to one so base-rainded?
- ↑ * Vemana has, in many passages, called himself a madman, with a view, we may suppose, to securing himself from the vengeance he was likely to incur by his unsparing safires on I finduism and the Braminicalːhierarchy.Thus, also, Lucian Rabelais assumed the garb of fools and madmen. While the arguments conveyed in their writings were undermining the polytheistical systems of their times. Erasmus, too, in his book entitled Laus Stultitia, has adopted this method with a like object.
- ↑ † Which is imagined to lose sight and sense, and even to devour its cubs.
