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Dhan was shocked and grief-stricken when he saw Bhushan thus lying on the ground and began to weep like a helpless child. Doctors and magicians were brought to free Bhushan of the effects of the mortal venom. Though the doctors and magicians tried all their methods, Bhushan could not recover his consciousness. He did not regain his life. All the efforts made by Dhan were in vain.
It is said that the man who dies while carrying out a noble task and while engaged in sublime contemplations attains spiritual elevation and that he attains a sublime state of existence. This happened in the case of Bhushan. After his death Bhushan was born as a human being. He was born as the son of king Achal and Queen Harini of Ratnapur. He was named Priyadarshan. He easily became the apple of everyone's eyes but there appeared the spirit of renunciation in Priyadarshan even at his birth. Therefore he had no attachment for royal splendour, wealth or worldly prosperities. Day by day, he felt magnetically drawn towards spiritual austerities. In course of time when he stepped on the threshold of youth there arose in his heart a desire to pursue the path of Charitradharma. of the impulsion of his inherited spiritual excellence he informed his father and mother of his desire but on account of their affection for him they did not give their consent to his desire to become a Sadhu. On the contrary, they celebrated his marriage with three thousand princesses. On account of the compulsion of his father and mother, he married and fell into the bondage of worldly existence but his soul was always alert and awake. He led the life of a householder for sixty four thousand years during which period he carried out various kinds of external and internal austerities and then died in the state of samadhi (a state of spiritual ecstasy) and was born as a heavenly being in the Brahmadevalok.
The merchant Dhan continued to lament over his bereavement for years and then passed away. After his death he passed through many janmas and then was born in one janma in a brahmin family in a city called Potanpur. He was named Mridumathi. When he grew up to be a young man he became haughty, insolent and wicked. In consequence, his father turned him out
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