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in the city of Shravasti; when Kapila spoke to the Pandit about his straitened circumstances, he recommended him to a high-minded merchant Salibhadra who promised to maintain him. Kapila prosecuted his studies so well that he was expected to turn out a great learned man in future, but unfortunately he fell in love with a maid-servant who became conceived by his company. In order to provide for the expenses necessary after the delivery, he anxiously set out at night to get two silver coins from a leading citizen. Then he was arrested on the way by the Police and was brought before the king in the morning. The king asked him the reason of his going out at midnight from his house. Kapila with a firm faith in truth candidly related the whole account without any omission. The king, being pleased, asked him to select a boon. He went to a garden where he began to think over the matter. All desires being dormant in the human mind began to flash out one after the other and knew no bounds. His mind could not be satisfied even by the exorbitant demand of wealth and property, when of a sudden by the rise of meritorious Karmas, his desires became weakened and a fresh spirit of denial was awakened. He, on the cessation of his desires, was blessed with quietude. He began to tear off his hair being desirous of taking to asceticism when the deities at once presented him with the ascetic garb. He then went to the king and being asked by him as to the selection of his boon, he candidly related what passed in his mind without reserve. The king
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