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1. The number of persons who are enraged without provocation is limitless; persons enraged under provocation are numerous; but, in this world, those who do not become angry, even with sufficient provocation, are rare.
तं नत्यि घर नत्थि राउलं, देउलं पित नत्यि ।
जत्य अकारणकृविया, दो तिमि खला न दीसंति ॥ २॥ 2. Tam natthi gharam, tam natthi rāulam, deulam pi tam
natthi;
Jattha a-kāraņa-kuviyā do tinni khala na disanti 2. There is neither a house nor a kingdom, nor a temple where two or three wicked persons who are enraged without provocation, do not. become visible.
ईयेया लमो जन्तु-रन्धत्वं परवश्यताम् ।
इहैवामुत्र नरकाविपुनदुःखमनुत्परम् ॥ ३ ॥ 3. Irsyayā labhaté jantu-randhatvam paravaśyatām
Ihaivāmutra narakâdi puna-r-duhkhamanuttaram. 3 3, By jealousy, a person acquires blindness and subsurvience to the will of another during this life, and on the other hand he acquires overwhelming misery of hell etc in the next world.
In the same manner, O Lord I while trying to get a high and higher prosperous state, you will meet with a mistortune, like the old woman Buddhi
Jambū Kumāra replied, O sweetheart! I will not, like a well-bred horse, go along a wrong path. Now, Beloved of the gods! hear this story.
THE STORY OF THE HORSE. In the town of atrag Vasantapura, there was a very virtuous and dutiful king named f ry Jitasatru
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