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UTTARÂDHYAYANA.
town called Ishukâra !, which is beautiful like heaven. (1)
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 Samsara, they abandoned (pleasures, &c.) and took refuge in the path of the Ginas. (2)
Two males remained bachelors, (the third became) the Purôhita (Bhrigu), (the fourth) his wife Yasa, (the fifth) the widely-famed king Ishukâra, and (the sixth) his wife Kamalâvati. (3)
Overcome by fear of birth, old age, and death, their mind intent on pilgrimage, and hoping to escape the Wheel of Births, they examined pleasures and abandoned them. (4)
Both dear sons of the Brahmanical Purðhita, who was intent on works, remembered their former birth, and the penance and self-control they had then practised. (5)
Averse to human and heavenly pleasures, desiring liberation, and full of faith, they went to their father and spoke thus : (6)
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)
In order to dissuade them from a life of austerities, the father replied to those (would-be) monks: Those versed in the Vêdas say that there will be no better world for men without sons. (8)
'My sons, after you have studied the Vedas, and fed the priests, after you have placed your own sons
' In Prakrit Usuyâra (or Isuyâra). According to the Prâkrit legend given in the commentary it was in the Kuru country.
