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stung him. Bat from the shattere: hire. drops of hones fell on the man's forehead, and thence into his mouth. Notwithstanding his dangerous situation, the man relished the honer (191–214).
The moral of this apologue is as follows: The man is the Forldlr man: the forest the world: the elephant death: the Tell. human life; the serpent hell; the four snakes, the passions, wrath, etc.: the root of the bansan tree, man's life. the two mice are the dark and light fortnights: the bees SOTTOTS anıı cares: the drops of bones. Forldlr pleasures (215-216).
If a god should rescue the man from danger. Tould he not be thankful? Thus. Jambū said, he would not reject the help of the Ganadhara to escape from the Samsāra. As Prabhara reminded bim of his duty towards his family, he said famlr-ties were rather an illasion (219-223) and related
The 2nd story of the courtesan who married her son (22+ 313).
Kuberasená a courtesan in Vathură onze became mother of trins. Kuberadatta and Kuberadattı. Her mother. horrerer, prerailed upon her to expose them. So the twins there pog in a tight box, which tras floated on the Yamunā and at last landed at Šauryanagara. There ther tere discorered by two merchants who adopted each one of them. Their names were discovered on tiro rings found on them. The children trere careially educated and dereloped to such beauty, that ther yere thought a proper match. and accordinglr, betrothed to one another (224-247). Once the newly married couple 'was playing some game. when Kuberadatta's ring was thrown into the lap of his wife. Tho perceiring it to be exactly like her own, readily guessed the true relation between Kuberadatta ani herself. She then returned the ring, together with her own to
In fuberadatta who, of course, came to the same conclusion order to arrive at the truth he induced his nominal mother to tell him all she knew about him and Kuberadattā Her tale left no doubt that he was betrothed to his sister. His only comfort was, that nothing criminal, beyond the marriage cere
| SR No. | 010713 |
| Book Title | Sthaviravali Charitra or Parisista Parva |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Jacobi |
| Publisher | Asiatic Society |
| Publication Year | 1932 |
| Total Pages | 467 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 12 MB |