Book Title: Samraiccha Kaha
Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay

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________________ 122. 1. ] 133 66 effort; may you take food. For, a living man crossing the calamity, can, without fail, obtain prosperity. The king said Devas'arman, I have never given up the human effort proper for the time. I took to friarhood mentally. Hence my mind is not under the sway of the desire of the prosperity. [121] I have taken to non-eating, knowing the proper time. Hence I will not take food." He said "If you are not going to take food, your son will get angry. "The king said "His anger is without ground; anchorites are of truthful vow." He said, "My lord, you know the full account of the life of prince; therefore may he not do a sinful act towards you." 19 was In the meantime, finding that Deavas'arman delaying, Prince Ananda, under the heat of anger, came holding a dagger. He said "If you do not take food, I will cut off your head with a sword, imitating the tongue of the god of death." The king said, 61 Who-knowing that this residence in the shape of body is not eternal, not substantial and ends in death-would, O king, regret when one has to go to death surely? (209) How does a man say for one 'he lives' while he, from his life in the womb, is gradually dying like a lake drying up with the lessening of water? (210) If one of the co-travellers in a caravan, starting for the next world as it were, goes there first, what is in this case the cause of fear? (211) What hope is there for life to a man-as to an animal at a slaughter-house-to a man, who has the

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