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CITRA AND SAMBHUTA
'Domestic life ceases to have attraction for one who has lost his sons; Vásishthí, the time has arrived for me to turn mendicant friar. As long as a tree retains its branches, it is really a tree; when they are lopped off, it is called a trunk (29)
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65. As a bird without its wings, as " a king in battle without his followers, as a merchant on a boat without his goods, even so am I without my sons.' (30).
66. "You have brought together all these objects of desire, and collected many exquisitely pleasant things. Let us, therefore, fully enjoy the pleasures; afterwards shall go forth on the road of salvation." (31).
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67. 'We have finished enjoying pleasures, my dear; our life is drawing to its close. I do not abandon pleasures for the sake of an unholy life, but looking with indifference on gain and loss, on happiness and suffering, I shall lead the life of a munk.' (32)
68. May you not remember your brothers when it is too late like an old goose swimming against the current. Enjoy the pleasures together with me, A mandicant's life is misery." (33).
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69. My dear, as a snake casts off the slough of its body and goes along free and easy, so have my sons abandoned pleasure. Why should I, being left alone, not follow them? (34).
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1. Cyprinus Rohita.
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