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his sons, nor his relations will share his suffering, he alone has to bear it; for the Karman follows the doer,
24. " Leaving behind bipeds and quadrupeds, his fields, his house, his wealth, his corn, and every. thing; against his will, and accounpained only by his Karman, he enters a new existence, either a good or a bad one.
25. '" When they have burned with fire on the funeral pile his forlorn, helpless corpse, his wife and sons and kinsfolk will choose another man to provide for them.
26. “Life drags on towards death continuously; old age carries off the vigour of man. King of the Pamcálas, mark my words : do not fearful actions."
27. 'I, too, know just as well as you, O saint, what you have told me in your speech ; pleasures will get a hold on man, and are not easily abandoned by such as we are, sir.
28. 'O Citra, io Hastinapura ' I saw the powerful king Sanat Kumára, and I took that sinful resolution in my desire for sensual pleasures.
29. 'And since I did not repent of it, this has come of it, that I still long for sensual pleasures, though I kuow the Law.
30. 'As an elephant, sinking down in a quaymire, sees the raised ground but does not get to the
1. When Sunanda, wife of Sanatkumára, paid homage to Sambhúta. then a Jaina monk, and touched his feet with the curls of her soft hair, he was possessed by the desire to become a universal monarch in reward for his penances. This is the nidána of which the text speaks, and what I render in this connection by taking a resolution.' Jacobi.
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