Who knows and does his duty well (xiii. 2610).
The following stanza shows how cosmopolitan Bhartṛihari was in his views:—
“This man’s our own, a stranger that”:
Thus narrow-minded people think.
However, noble-minded men
Regard the whole world as their kin.
But these poets go even beyond the limits of humanity and inculcate sympathy with the joys and sorrows of all creatures:—
To harm no living thing in deed,
In thought or word, to exercise
Benevolence and charity: