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228 Samaraditya then ordered the charioteer to take the chariot further on. He began to think :
"What type of world is this ? Where is happiness here? What a bad disease the leprosy is ? There are many other diseases also.....'
To-day, all the difficulties of the world had decided; as it were, to show their faces. The chariot rolled on. Just then, at a short distance, Samaraditya saw another strange sight. Four persons were carrying away one man who was lying in -a tied-down position, on the bamboos. Some other men were following them weeping and wailing loudly. One cart-load of woods also moned
on.
The prince, halting the chariot, asked his companions : "Why these men weep even though to-day is the day of Spring Festival ? Why this man has been tied up with ropes? The poor fellow lies silent
