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are like yourself ! In other words you are incomparable !) 100. Oh ! the Tortoise alone is truly born ! What is the use of other people
who are born ? - Who in their whole life did nothing befitting their
birth? 101. If a birth be inevitable, let it be like that of the Tortoise. It is no use
getting another birth. It is indeed no use with such a birth! 102. What all other women here have had, under the guise of delivery, are
really miscarriages ! To tell the truth(satyena), the mother of the
Tortoise, however, had a real normal delivery ! 103. All other women who delivered had (in fact) miscarriages ! Your
mother alone, O Tortoise, had a real-natural-delivery ! 104. Other women, although they delivered had no 'real delivery ! They
had miscarriages ! In the whole world only one female Tortoise had a
true/real delivery ! 105. So long as his (this Tortoise's) equal is not born in the whole world,
what can this poor Tortoise do ? Not finding his equal he, all alone,
carries the heavy burden (of the earth). 106. Here he (this Tortoise) alone is the one and only one who bears the
burden (of the earth). The other one who bears the burden, look !
bears it only by his speech-words. 107. "Even to the Tortoise rest has ben granted by king Bhoja alone. By him
this Kūrmaśataka has been composed after he had taken away all hope
to [? from] the enemies." 108. This poem is not a century of verses. It is composed of only centuries
of gāthās (verses). Men recite a hundred times these gāthās (verses)
one by one. That is why it is called a 'Century.' 109. There hundreds of gāthās have not been composed by your own self
since each of these gathās is repeated a hundred times it is called gäthāśata (gāthāśataka). Here ends AvaniKūrmaśatam composed by Mahārājādhirāja Parameśvara Sri Bhojadeva.
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