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(white) flower.
10. Those men who have no desire to win fame nor compassion even for a moment
towards those who suffer in life - do they, like the guardians of wealth (dhanayakşa), give wealth even at the time of death ? (Note : The dhanayakşas do not part with wealth even at the time of death. They sit on it like the guardians of wealth.)
11. The young bride, intoxicated with the prime of her youth and tormented by
separation from her husband sings a song in a sweet voice.
12. The moon, born of the same ocean as the kālakūta (deadly) poison, the Malaya
wind coming from the South (the direction of the God of Death), the palāśa that blossoms in the rainy season (also the cannibal demon) - these three are the long travellers' killers.'
