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A foolish fish, greedy for flesh, runs towards the crowd of examiners, playing in the vast waters of the river, thinking in his mind, "I will catch the praiseworthy, limitless energy of the kings in a moment, with the hook of the fisherman." The singing, fair-skinned woman, with her mind and ears attentive, did not call the deer. The prince, having arrived, bowed to his father. ||5|| Seeing the arrow coming towards him, the pair of deer, subdued by the hope of objects, do not see the thicket surrounding the field, and often, being pierced by the hunter in the forest, they attain death. The king, whose crest is adorned with a plume, said, "O prince, be steadfast in bearing the burden, you bear the weight of the earth. I am afflicted by the tears of hundreds of wives who are lamenting their husbands, who are free from the sound of 'tid-tid-tid', who, like the Korant flower, consume the stain of the sin of Kaliyuga with the fire of penance. You are the one who bears the burden of the family tradition, your shoulder is yellow, placed on the threshold, and the lamp, which destroys the moths that are absorbed in form, has spoken." Then the son, who is the lord of desire, replies, "I destroy it with utmost respect, in the same way that it does not please him, in this way all fall into the mouth of Yama. O friend, all those who are blind to attachment attain destruction, just as the group of darkness is destroyed by the rising sun. O sole emperor of the world, it is by you. When beings who are under the control of their senses suffer so much, how can I, the master of five letters, enjoy the earth and the land? The dust of your lotus feet, the memory of the cruel enemy (Arhanta, etc.), and the taste of the five senses, and the tiger for Lakshmi on the paths of the ten directions, I. Just as Lakshmi is the lord, so is the lotus. Therefore, what is there to say about the sorrows of us who are lamenting the lotus and the earth?"
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