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LITERARY EVALUATION
609 At 29.20-23 there is already quoted) an effective description of old age and extreme decreptitude of Dasaratha's Kancuki. This kindles in Dasaratha a desire for renouncing the world. Again at 31.37 he is acquainted with his previous birth by some muni and at 31.43-49 he finds that in life there is 'unrest, lack of peace as a result of Karmas, so he decides to shake off the shackles of worldly life. There is a gradual enlightenment and consummation of 'nirveda'.
King Vijayaparvata who has got a deep rooted lust for life is instructed at 39.53-61 by a muni. The latter tries to create in him the feeling of repugnance against life in flesh by stressing the fact that human body is an accumulation of dirts. The performance of physical functions is abominable. Mind keeps swerving towards the physical life like an unruly elephant. It needs be controlled by the "ankuśa' of wisdom and strength of detachment. Finally the seeds of nirveda are sown in the king and he prepares for renunciation.
At 106.15-46 the disappointment of Laksamana's sons in the 'svayamvara' of Mandakini and Candramukhi results in their renouncing the world. At first they are hostile to Lavana and Ankusa who have been selected. But later their mother teaches them that search for happiness in worldly life is searching for a kernel in the trunk (106.22) of a plaintain tree. At this Lakşmana's sons get enlightened. Now they cannot be held back by various temptations of luxuries and comforts that a kingly life affords. They have realised that the worldly life is like a sea full of sufferings which constitute its water. There are crocodiles of passions, waves of evil modes of existence and eddies of birth and death. They finally renounce the world.
At 102.36-46 after her fire ordeal Sita realises the transitory character of human relations. She develops an aversion to the
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Trautfaranfeat, gurzfa hota at EU HETTI पुरिसो पावइ दुक्खं, चिरकालं दीहसंसारे ॥ दुक्खसलिलावगाढे, कसायगाहुक्कडे भवावत्ते । घणदोग्गइविच्चीए, जरमरणकिलेसकल्लोले ।। एयारिसे महायस, भमिया संसारसायरे अम्हे । दुक्खाइ अणुहवन्ता, कहकहवि इहं समुत्तिण्णा ॥ संसारियदुक्खाणं, भीया जरमरणविप्पोगाणं । अणुमन्नसु ताय तुमं, पव्वज गिण्हिमो अज्ज ॥ १०६.४०-४३
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