Age, wealth, family dissension, private council, sexual intercourse, medicinal remedies, penance, almsgiving, and disgrace, (are) nine things to be carefully concealed." The object of the present translation is two fold; first to supply an exact and literal rendering of the Hitopadesa for the students learning Sanskrit, and the second to show to the general reader what a tremendous treasure house the Hitopadesa is! The Hitopadesa being generally the first ...
