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I can accept you only on one condition.
NANDISHEN My darling! The ascetic told the
courtesan accept all your
Let it be clear to you that each day conditions. My
will accept food only after preaching body, heart, and
and enlightening ten persons. The day wealth all
I fail to reach this number I will again belong to you.
become an ascetic.
Then she said
At these words the courtesan thought scornfully —
Darling!
accept all what you say.
Naive ascetic! Once entrapped in my web it would be beyond
you to escape.
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Nandishen discarded his ascetic garb* and put on good clean householder's dress.
MADUTYUNUM
*Dress, ascetic-broom and alms-pots.
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