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beautiful body is perfectly unfit for the practice of the austerities guitable for a hardy individual.
It may perhaps have been caused by bereavement of separation from a beloved female or from logs of property or it may have been caueed by separation from relatives or by some other misfortune. I am very anxious to know this matter, so if there be no objection on your part, please let me hear it.”
The Parivrājaka ascetic said “O worthy man! what is possibly unaccountable to you ? Hear me if you have a curiosity to know.
An account of the Parivrājaka. "I was a very wealthy man at teirraf Kausāmbi, and was always ready to help numerous poor, helpless, estranged, and terrified persons, and to give them shelter.
One day, when I was asleep at night I heard a terrific noise. Becoming afraid, I at once got up from my couch and as I was looking around I saw several formidable blood-thiraty bandits fully equipped with sharp daggers, bows and arrows, discus, spears and other sharp-pointed weapons in their hands, and shouting loudly “Kill, Kill”, plundering the mass of wealth carefully hidden under the ground, taking possession of borses from different stables, defeating servants and guardians fighting with them in self-defence, and taking away metallic vessels and house-hold furniture, as if they were warriors of the God of Death or the companions of lell or the Grand-fathers of Wickedness.
On seeing them and becoming ben ildered with inminent danger of impending death, I called out for my body-guards, but although I repeatedly called out for them, they did not even answer once, as if they were intoxicated or in a swoon or as if they had become perfectly senseless. I at once thought that they must have been placed under the influence of artificial slcep by the robbers or they must have been rendered senseless by some
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