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37. By a remnant of the merit they had acquired in their former life, they were born in noble families. Disgusted with the world and afraid of the Samsára, they abandoned pleasures etc., and took refuge in the path of the Jinas. (2)
38. Two males remained bachelor's, the third became the Purohita (Bhrigu), the fourth his wife Yasá, the fifth the widely famed king Ishukára, and the sixth his wife Kamalávatí (3)
39. Overcome by fear of birth, old age, and death, their mind intent on pilgrimage, and hoping to scape the wheel of Births, they examined pleasures and abandoned them. (4)
40. Both dear sons of the Brahmanical Puro. hita, who was intent on works, remembered their former birth, and the penance and self-control they had then practised. (5)
41. Averse to human and heavenly pleasures, desiring liberation, and full of faith, they went to their father and spoke thus : (6)
42. « Seeing that the lot of man is transitory and precarious, and that his life lasts not long, we take no delight in domestic life; we bid you farewell: we shall turn monks." (7).
43. In order to dissuade them from a life of austerities, the father replied to those would-be monks : “ Those versed in the Vedas say that there will be no better world for men without sons. (8).
44. “My sons after you have studied the Vedas, and fed the priests, after you have placed your own
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