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Is there anything remaining to be told?"
"Reverend Sir!" replied the Princes, "there is nothing. Thanks to you,
we have heard and comprehended the perfect cycle of kingly duty, and are
content."
"There remains but this, then," said their Preceptor:--
'Peace and Plenty, all fair things,
Grace the realm where ye reign Kings;
Grief and loss come not anigh you,
Glory guide and magnify you;
Wisdom keep your statesmen still
Clinging fast, in good or ill,
Clinging, like a bride new-wed,
Unto lips, and breast, and head:
And day by day, that these fair things befall,
The Lady Lukshmi give her grace to all.'

[21] A young Brahman, being invested with the sacred thread, and having
concluded his studies, becomes of the second order: a householder.


NALA AND DAMAYANTI
[_Selected from the "Mahabharata" Translation by Sir Edwin Arnold_]

INTRODUCTION

The "Mahabharata" is the oldest epic in Sanscrit literature, and is
sevenfold greater in bulk than the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" taken together.


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