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123. 16. ] heaven or final absolution is sure, is, o king, even a festival. (220)
Going to which place would a man be freed from the black young serpent in the form of death; with long langs full of poison in the form of calamities terrible with incessant diseases? ( 221 )
Neither fight nor running away nor fear matters to the hand of god of death; and its hand is not seen; and unshakable it catches fast. ( 222 )
[ 123 ] Just as cough cuts off breaths decayed with time, even so the god of death cuts off human beings soon as they are born. (223)
If then the bonds of death wander with pleasure and self-will even among gods to whom there is even absolute non-descent of old age, aches and diseases, ( 224 )
. Then what to talk of man who is ever chased by diseases, old age, aches and grief ? That a man lives even an instant, is the carelessness of death. ( 225 )
Then give no time for the infamy that is adopted by an unwise person; not even Indra is able to control one who is licked by the jaws of death. ( 226 )
Thus, my son, bring no calunny on your own family by mere killing of a mortal. Lo ! How can I take food which is abandoned by my own word ? ( 227 )
Hearing this preaching, he (i. e. Ananda thinking) “ How does he speak even now ?” hit him (i, e. Simba ) on the head with a sword, with eyes burning red with the fire of anger. ( 228 )
He, with pure feeling and with the reality known ( with the thought ) · Bow to Jinas" contemplated
