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4140-4149

  • (It says), “I am a royal falcon, I am fair and auspicious, I have nothing to do with carrion: I am not a vulture. 4140
  • Abandon the vulture, for I will be thy helper: a wing of mine is better for thee than a hundred vultures.”
  • How long wilt thou gallop blindly? For (learning) a trade and business one needs a master.
  • Do not disgrace thyself in the capital of China: seek a sage and do not separate thyself from him.
  • Hark, whatever the Plato of the age bids thee do, give up thy self-will and act in accordance with that (counsel).
  • All (who dwell) in China are saying in zeal for (the glory of) their King, “He begetteth not. 4145
  • Never in sooth has our King begotten a child; nay, he has not allowed a woman to approach him.”
  • When any king says of him something of this sort, he weds his (traducer's) neck to the cutting scimitar.
  • The King says (to such an one), “Since thou hast spoken these words, either prove that I have a wife and family—
  • And if thou prove that I have a daughter, thou art safe from my keen sword—