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A bloody quarrel ensued, in which, however, the older monkey decidedly suffered the most He retired, covered with wounds and thoroughly exhausted Coming to a rock from which bitumen was oozing, he mistook the liquid for water and began to lick it But the bitumen clung so strongly to his face that he could not get it off, and when he touched it with his hands and feet, they too became fixed in the bitumen He thus perished miserably In like ray sensual lust laying hold of man by one of his senses is sure to ruin lus entire soul
CANTO THE THIRD Vabhahsenā relates The 12th story of the two old women (1-45)
In some village there lived two very poor old women, Buddhi and Siddhi, who were great friends of each other Buddhi had for a long time continued to sacrifice to a Yaksa, Bhola (or Bholaka), when the god, pleased with her devotion, promised her whatever she should ask. She asked him for sufficient means to live well and the Yaksa assented, saying, that she would daily find a dināra at his foot The poor woman thus at once became richer than all people about her, and she began to live in great style When Siddhı had become aware of this change, she did not rest till she had wormed the secret out of her crony, and forthwith worshipped the Yaksa with the utmost zeal The god at last rewarded her devotion by granting her request, Tiz , that he should give her double what he had given to her friend It became now the latter's turn to enry her friend's good luck, and to worship the Yaksa till she got clouble the sum which Siddhi earned Again, Siddhi sacrificed to the Yaksa, and when the god was pleased, asked him to make her blind in one eye Buddhı beliered that her companion had by her devotion doubled her income, and moved by cnry she again exerted herself to please the god. When the god at last granted her boon. she asked him to give her twice what he had granted to Siddhi Upon this she became blind in hoth eyes In the same way, the queen concluded, Jambu
| 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 |