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antagonistic feeling of that king towards me! How [25] out of all hermits, I am the object of his ridicule that he, knowing my particular vow and lull of spile, invites me like this and not fullfilling my last-breaking, submits me to indignity; so, the king indeed is foolish or why does he submit to indignity, me who am gone to such a condition? Thus the indignity which is given to orphans, the weak and the beings overpowered by others as by the god of death, does not satisfy the pride the proud;-hence to add, he offers indignity to hermits who are busy in the activities of the next world and to whom friends and enemies are equal;-or this much ill-treatment is offered to me alone who have kept at least a touch of food ! So enough of these insults alone to me for the whole of life. I vow to undertake fast throughout life." Having given up his activities, with his mind tainted with evil meditation and his body emaciated with penance, he was seen by the hermits there. He said “Revered sir, your body appears to be much emaciated and you have not done usual application of pigments and (putting on) of flowers. So even now is not your fast broken ?” Agnis’arman said “No, not broken." The hermits said "How is it not broken? Did not you enter the home of king Gunasena ?" Hermit Agnis'arman said "I did enter." The hermits said “How then is it not fulfilled ?" He said, “From my childhood, this king is inimical to me without reason; hence I am put to indignity by him. I now know the link of revenge not previously known to me. He appeared like a civil man until the link of the revenge of him who is treacherously courteous, was
