915. (
Tamil characters)
From contact with their worthless charms, whose charms to all are free,
The men with sense of good and lofty wisdom blest will flee.
916. (Tamil characters)
From touch of those who worthless charms, with wanton arts, display,
The men who would their own true good maintain will turn away.
917. (Tamil characters)
Who cherish alien thoughts while folding in their feigned embrace,
These none approach save those devoid of virtue's grace.
918. (Tamil characters)
As demoness who lures to ruin, woman's treacherous love
To men devoid of wisdom's searching power will prove.
919. (Tamil characters)
The wanton's tender arm, with gleaming jewels decked,
Is hell, where sink degraded souls of men abject.
920. (Tamil characters)
Women of double minds, strong drink, and dice: to these giv'n o'er
Are those on whom the light of Fortune shines no more.
CHAPTER XCIII. (Tamil characters).
(Tamil characters)—NOT DRINKING PALM-WINE.
921. (Tamil characters)
Who love the palm's intoxicating juice, each day,
No rev'rence they command, their glory fades away.
922. (Tamil characters)
Drink not inebriating draught. Let him count well the cost
Who drinks. By drinking, all good men's esteem is lost.
