Hitopdesh • Chapter 5 • Shloka 68
तत्र कपिलो नाम स्नातकोऽवदत् --
अरे कौण्डिन्य मूढोऽसि । तेनैवं विलपसि । शृणु ।
क्रोडीकरोति प्रथमं यदा जातमनित्यता ।
धात्रीव जननी पश्चात्तदा शोकस्य कः क्रमः ॥
Among them, one Kapila by name, who had just finished his course of Vedic studies, said - Oh Kaundinya, your reason is gone and hence you lament thus. Hear! Since Frailty, like a midwife, takes on her lap a creature that is born first, and the mother afterwards, what occasion is there for sorrow?
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