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Jñānasāra
Meaning : We hope for good adopting an attitude of neutralily in all activities in a manner where there is no possibility of any fresh bondage according to the example which illustrates that a bull who was formerly a man was brought back to the original position by feeding it again with the herbal grass called life-restoring (assifat ). (8) [128]
Notes : चारिसञ्जीविनीचारन्याय is explained as follows :
There dwelt a Bābmin's daughter along with her female friend in the city called Farfandt. In course of time, marriage separated them. Later, the Brāhmin's daughter had a desire to see her friend, who, when they both met, told her that she was very unhappy as her husband was beyond her control. Consoling her, the Brāhmin's daughter told her not to worry as she would bring him round by turning him into a bull through the administration to him of a magical herb which she would be providing her.
She did as she was instructed by the Brāhmin's daughter. The woman became very unhappy seeing her husband actually turned into a bull. However, she served him, though a bull, by feeding him with grass on the lawns and pastures. Once, under a banyan tree, when the bull was grazing in the presence of the woman, she heard the Vidyādthara (the male demi-god ) perched on the branch revealing the secret to his wife (the female demi-god) that the bull was not really the bull but a human being in the form of a bull and that he can be brought to his original condition of a human being if a magical herb
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