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be deprived of the pleasure of sensual enjoyments of this world, and lest you may not become unhappy like the farmer Baka, by discarding your wives and other objects of enjoyment already in your pessession.
Jambū Kumāra replied “I am not like the greedy crow, who was very fond of flesh, that I may become unhappy. Now, hear the crow's story. THE STORY OF THE GREEDY CROW.
A rutting elephant living on Mount farrat Vindhya, distressed with thirst, during summer, one day went to tatai Révā Nadi,-River, Narmadā. There, his feet slipped down and he fell down into the river, like a huge mountain-peak tumbling down. On seeing that the clepbant was dead, jackals came there, and began eating his flesh. They, then, made a big hole in the upper aperture of his body. Many crows used to enter the hole and feel themselves happy by eating his flesh. While one crow entering his body was busily engaged in eating away flesh from the interior of his body, the aperture of his body, contracting under the influence of heat, became closed up tight and the greedy crow remained inside.
With the advent of the rainy season, the dead body of the elephant was led into the great ocean. Constantly wet with cold water, the dead body became enormously swollen, the aperture opened wide and the imprisoned crow came out. As - he looked around, he saw water everywhere. The distressed crow repratedly flied up and could find nothing but the dead body to sit on, but there was no end of the ocean. The dead body of the elephant, filled up with water was drowned into the ocean and along with it, the crow died by drowning
Jambu Kumāra addressing his wife said 0 Dear!
काकवत्करिणः काये, नारीदेहेऽनुरागवान् । कथं पिये। न मज्जामि, सोऽहं मोहाम्बुधाविव ॥१॥
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