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fruits of eating flesh, and the greater emphasis has been specially laid upon the evil fruits of eating the flesh of various kinds of fish probably to enlighten people who might be eating the flesh of fish much more than that of any other animals, or it might have been meant for the enlightenment of a certain class of persons who, as even to-day, consider the eating of the flesh of fish as less harmful and less irreligious than the eating of the flesh of any other animals.
The ninth lecture puts forth a vivid picture of the nature of this human world in which men and women, for the sake of gratifying their emotions and passions by which they are greatly swayed, do not hesitate to commit even great sins like murder. It casts a shadow of many an intrigue and intricacy so often employed in this world by men and women who are completely overpowered by the evil influence of lust and other passionate desires which are the root-cause of worldly miseries. The intrigues of women, especially, play an important part in the drama of this miserable worldly life. The mothers of the four hundred ninty-nine queens of King Sihasena conspire and decide to kill Sāmā the only beloved queen of king Sihasena because the latter did not
