Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1910 Book 06

SR No.: 536506
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference
Publication Year: 1910
Total Pages: 422
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald, & India
File Size: 13 MB

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that tyrants sometities coite to grief by singling out for perse cution some one who is strooig enough to resist them though they little suspect it. The fable of the four bulls shows the effect of dissensions among the mighty. Four bulls had entered into a close alliance, and agreed to keep always near one another. A lion fomented jealousies among them. The bulls grew distrustful of one another and at last parted company. The lion had now obtained his end, and seized and devoured them singly. The fickleness of fortone is the theme of the fable of the Horse and the Ass. The borse, richly caparisoned and champing his foaming bridle, insults an ass who moves along under a heavy load. Soon after the horse is wounded, aud being unfit for military service, is sold to a carrier. The ass now taunts the proud animal with his fallen estate. The horse in this table is the type of many an Eastern vizter, who has basked for a time in the sunshine of a despot's favor only to be suddenly and igpominiously degraded. The ass in the fable represents the people There remains a fourth gtoap of fables, which satitize certain mean or ridiculous types of charactets, such as are apt to appear in social conditions of the kind we have described. Especially do the fables make a target of the folly of those who affect the manners of the aristocratic, class, . or who try to crowd in where they are not wanted, or who boast of their high confections. The frog puffs up so that he may seem as large as the ox, until he bursts. The mouse aspitės to marry the young liottess, and is ifi fact well received ; but the young lady inadvertently places her foot on her saitor add crushes him. The jackdow picks up feathers which have fallen from the peacocks, sticks them anong his owo, and introduces Himself into the assembly of those proud birds. They. find hit out, strip him of his plumes, and with their sharp bills puuish him as he deserves. A fly boasts that he frequeüts the most distinguished company, and that he is on familiar terms with the king, the priests, and the nobility. Many a time, he says, he has entered the royal chamber, has sat upon the altar, and has even enjoyed the privilege of kissing the lips of the most beautiful maids of honor. “Yes” replies an ant, but in what capacity, are you admitted among all these great people ? One aid all regard you as a nuisance, and the soonar they can get rid of you the better they are pleased."