Even as a stout-pillared edifice, getting dilapidated, waxes weak, so men coming under the sway of decrepitude and death, get enfeebled.
यथाऽऽगारं दृढस्थूणं जीर्णं भूत्वोपसीदति। तथावसीदन्ति नरा जरामृत्युवशंगताः॥