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come; rest in that Campak-grove. “The king said Just " as your worship orders.' He went to the Campak-grove. [30] The patriarch sat on a seat of Kus'a grass placed upon a clean stone; and near it sat the king with his retainers on the ground. Then the patriarch said “O king, why did you improperly act to come over on foot this much way, thus, with your wives and retainers ?”: The king replied, “Revered sir, we always do improper things; or for wicked perscns like myself it is only fit that the obstruction should be done to the religious observance by killing the great hermit out of carelessness. Then what of calling this a revenge by one whose goodness of heart is unmoved ? Revered sir, now where is that high-souled Hermit Agnis'arman ? I shall bow to him and purify my sinful self by seeing him.' The patriarch said “O king, do not grieve this much. He has not taken to fasting by dejection on your count; but it is rather the vow of a hermit that at the fag-end of life he should leave life by taking to full fasting.” The king said “O revered sir, what of speaking more? I shall then see that high-souled one." The patriarch said "King, enough of thus seeing him. He is engaged in meditation; then why make an obstruction in his determined work? Go you to the town; look up here some other time.” The king said “As your worship orders; I shall come again;' and got up extremely sad. Bowing to the patriarch, he started for the town.'
[31] Then one compassionate boy-hermit followed a little way off and reported to him the opinion of Agnis'arman. Then the king thought "What of coming over again here, if however the patriarch is put to an
