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indeed full of the sentiment of valour and dear to his own relatives. We do not know what will come off. Being afflicted by great pain and unable to bear this extremeness of grief, with no remedy existing, we only weep having resorted to the disposition of a woman."
Dharana said. "Friends, enough of grief. Show me the lord of the village. Perhaps I can keep up his life.”
Then, having fallen on their feet, the S'abaras, with eyes dilating under the influence of joy, said, "Respected sir, thus you are by form the incarnation of a god. You are alone able to console the lord. Moreover, if you think of favouring us, may you go quickly; so that the great harm may not come to the lord.” Then taking the herb given by Vidyadhara [ 14 ] and having ridden the mule, the merchant-son, surrounded by some of his men, went quickly. Under the foot of a banyan tree, he saw Kālasena sitting by the side of the pyre, with limbs sprinkled by the jets of blood, in company of his wife who was weeping indistinctly
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