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let me give them through your incentive proper amount of help and co-operation. (6)
BIRDS AND BEASTS
Oh! Compassion ! through your benign urge 1 intend to spend my energy, which remains surplus after having spent it sufficiently in helping and supporting human beings, in doing the same for poor birds and beasts. Oh! some impious and merciless people molest the helpless animals, hunt them, cut their throats for flesh and kill the flying birds with bullets and stones. Though your salutary influence I have an ardent desire to save the afflicted birds and beasts by effective legislation ensuring protection to them, making movement promising safety to them, propagating literature that will inculcate on these inhuman people the wicked nature of their deeds or by direct preaching. I also want through your religious inspiration to erect as many Panjarapolas as possible with a view to giving those disabled birds and beasts a regular medical aid. (7)
CONCLUSION
Oh ! Compassion ! in this world there are many animals deserving mercy. They all cannot be named here. It would be enough to state in brief that Oh ! Mercy! give me power enough to give shelter to those needy and miserable human beings, birds, and beasts who are in bad requirement
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