kha ba’i dgra yi rdeg las skyes pa las skyes nas | | ji ltar gñis skyes gaṅ źig lus ni rnam thar ’gro | |
kha ba’i dgra yi dgra yis khyim gyi dgra ’joms naṅ | | naṅ du de ltar gaṅ źig yid ni rnam par thar gśegs mdzod | |
Water and snow and fire are opposed to one another, but the fire by its influence causes vapour,
913. ’The vapour causes the floating clouds, the floating clouds drop down rain; there are birds in space, who drink the rain, with rainless bodies(?)
914. ’Slaughter and peaceful homes are enemies! those who would have peace hate slaughter, and if those who slaughter are so hateful, then put an end, O king, to those who practise it!
915. ’And bid these find release, as those who drink and yet are parched with thirst.’
71. ‘As in the midst of a sudden catastrophe arising from the flame of (fire), the enemy of cold, a bird, to deliver its body, betakes itself to the enemy of fire (water),--so do thou, when occasion calls, betake thyself, to deliver thy mind, to those who will destroy the enemies of thy home.’