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[ 10. 8. 5. are my mother. What grace is there in your telling me this ? Do you 5 not remember your higli parentage which bears the excellence of the sky ? Respected as you are with honours and gifts, why have you resorted to tbis rashness, oh mother? How is it that your intellect, which was the delight to the eyes and ears of peuple, has become so perverted ? " Interrupting his speech and grasping him by the band, the love-stricken woman 10 made him quiet. A woman attracts the mind of even gods like Hari, Hara, Bruknā, and Indra; what can a poor, stupid man, fallen in to ber clutches, do?
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9. By nature, every one has the feeling of love and thinks of woman in his heart with one mind. If he gets her consent, then, tell me, is the woman to be disregarded ? Whose nind does not shake in hør company, he obtains the way to perfection, oh lord of men. So, in the mean while, the sun set. After many hours, even the sun went to sleep. as it were. The multicoloured evening pervaded the sky; she was, as it were, the bride of the sky, dressed red. Thick darkness spread about where an adulteress can follow many men. Nāgadattā, infatuated with love, thought of the darkness in her heart and embraced that Brahmana who bit her lip. But, in the meantime, the moon rose up in a moment. arousing sorrow in the mind of the unchaste woman. Then the merchant observed her conduct and instantly retired to forest. Having practised pedance, he broke all ties and went to beaven, where, having enjoyed happiness, he died again, and, in course of days, came into the womb of Vasumati as the son of king Vasupāla in the town of Campā. That gracious Dhādīvāhana, beloved of the people and foremost in the world, having stout arms, meditated upon the Five Teachers on the mountain, occupied the topmost heaven, and becamo immortal.
10. That Brahmana, as a result of adultery, wandered in to the cycle of existence. Having experienced misery in an inaccessible thicket of the forest, he was born an elephant in the country of Kalinga. Under the arrangement of some Karma, it became the best elephant of the king of Campā. Having cohabited with a stranger, Nagadattă experienced misery in the great ocean of transmigration. Here, in the Bharata country, is the town Tāmralipti, seeing which the lord of the gods does not feel satiated. There was the good merchant Vasumitra, who came to have Nāgadattā
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