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## The Fifty-Fifth Chapter
A creature with two legs is a beast if it is devoid of self-control and virtue. Thus, driven by the desire to learn the Vedas, Raman left his home. [7] Wandering the earth, he studied the four Vedas with their appendages in the houses of teachers. After completing his studies, he returned home. [7]
Longing to see his brother, Raman arrived in the city of Rajagriha as the sun set and darkness enveloped the sky. [72] He stayed outside the city in a dilapidated garden, which was a shrine to the Yakshas. There, this incident unfolded. [73]
Raman's brother, Vinod, who lived in Rajagriha, had a wife named Samidha. This Samidha was a woman of loose morals, and she received a signal from a king named Ashokadatta to meet him at the Yaksha shrine where Raman was staying. [74]
Ashokadatta was apprehended by the police on his way, so he could not reach Samidha as planned. Meanwhile, Vinod, Samidha's true husband, arrived with a sword in hand. [75]
Hearing Raman's kind words to Samidha, Vinod, consumed by anger, killed Raman with his sword. [76]
Afterward, Vinod, the hidden sinner, returned home with his wife, filled with joy. They wandered the world for a long time. [77]
Later, Vinod's soul became a buffalo in the forest, and Raman's soul became a blind bear in the same forest. Both perished in a fire in that Sal forest. [78]
They were then reborn as hunters in the mountain forest, and after death, they became deer. Their parents and other relatives, terrified, scattered in all directions. The two fawns were left alone. Their eyes were exceptionally beautiful, so the hunters captured them alive. [79]
Meanwhile, the third Narayana king, Swayambhu, was on his way to see the immaculate Sri Vimalnath Swami. [80]
The king Swayambhu, adorned with immense wealth, returned after paying homage to the Jina with the gods and demons. He saw the two fawns and, seeing the hunters, he...