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four kinds were present there. The ninety-eight brothers of Bharata Mahārājā hastily went to the Samavasarana and baviog joy. fully done respectful obeisance before Bhagavān Sri Risabba Swāmi, they took their seats at appropriate places.
At a suitable opportunity they briefly stated the orders of Bharata Maharājā and respectfully inquired “O Father! Please let us know whether we should fight or whother we should abandon our kingdoms."
Bhagavan Sri Risabha Swānī, thereupon, knowing them to be suitable individuals, narrated to them the uadermentioned story of an iTTEE 16 Angāra-dabaka, a charcoal-burner, with the object of removing them from worldly opjuyments and dis. pelling their evil inclinations.
The Story of An Angāra-Mahaka. "An Angāra-dâhaka 16, a charcoal-burner went to a neighbouriog forest in summer, for the purpose of proparing coals with a vessel full of drinking water. There was a large quantity of dry wood in the forest. He collected them all in one place and set fire to the heap. He sat near the fire. His body became greatly heated by the burning wood. He was fatigued by preparing wood from the trees, and as he was very thirsty on account of the intense heat of the mid-day Sun of summer, he slept there.
"Meanwhile, the charcoal-burner had a dream. During the dream, he drank, the quantity of water he bad brought with him like an old, hard-working bullock of Mārwār, distreqsed by excessive heat of summer. His thirst was not quenched; so, he drank what-over quantity of water there was in water-pots in his house, and then, he entered wells, tanks, and lakes in pleasure-gardens. Having drunk the whole quantity of water there, he entered big rivers like the Ganges, and made them dry like the hot Sun of the final annihilation of the world. The obarcoal-burner, then, drank the entire quantity of the water of the oceans as if it
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