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The thirty-third chapter: Baleendu, having lost all his possessions, was expelled from the kingdom. He reached the hermitage of the Shramanas and took the vow of non-violence. ||17|| He spent his time in righteous meditation, free from impurities. He died and was reborn in the womb of Videha, the queen of Janaka. ||28|| Pingala returned from the forest and saw his empty hut. He was consumed by the pain of the fire of his burnt body. ||19|| He was like a madman, his eyes constantly shedding tears like the rain of a bad day. He asked everyone he saw, "Have you seen my lotus-eyed beloved?" ||10|| He cried out, "Oh, my beloved!" and lamented, "You left your mother Prabhavati, your father Chakradhvaja, your great wealth, and your loving brothers, and came to a foreign land for my sake." ||101-102|| "You endured rough food, coarse clothing, and all this for me. Oh, beautiful one, where have you gone, leaving me behind?" ||103|| Grief-stricken and burnt by the fire of separation, Pingala wandered the earth, filled with sorrow, through mountains and forests. He finally took up austerities, but even then, he was tormented by thoughts of his beloved. ||104|| After attaining the state of a god, he began to worry, "Did my beloved, devoid of right faith, take birth in the womb of a lower animal?" ||105|| "Or, being naturally pure, did she become human again? Or, remembering the Jina at the end of her life, did she attain the state of a god?" ||106|| Thinking this way, he became resolute and fixed his gaze. Filled with anger, he thought, "Where is that wicked enemy who abducted her?" After some thought, he realized that the enemy was also present in the womb of Queen Videha, along with his beloved. ||107|| Queen Videha gave birth to a son and a daughter. To avenge his hatred, he...