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of the earth by the impact of numerous warriors, horses, and elephants but becoming timid with fear, they were not able to approach an unassisted only one lion. Only those are fortunate in this world, and their masters alone can be considered as possessed of a son in the true sense of the word, only by the thundering roar of whose throat even strong persons are deprived of their life. Why should not an unassisted lion, whose strength can be made to sprout up in such a way that it becomes irrisistible, acquire celebrity?"
Killing the Lion
Having thus praised the lion for a long time and having become delighted by the bustle, the prince, riding an excellent chariot, sent back his retinue, went towards the den and eventually reached it. Many persons assembled there out of curiosity and created a great noise on both the sides of the den, By the loss of sleep on hearing the noise, the lion, with his formidable mouth widened while yawning, imitating the moon reddened by the dawn of the twilight by the mass of his molar teeth throwing out red blood derived from his drinking the blood of deer, shaking his dust-coloured mane, formidable by his raised up neck, deafening all the quarters by the sound arising from the dashing of his long, raised up, tail on the ground, and uttering a terrifying roar resembling the thundering of the clouds in the beginning of the rainy season,-(the lion) got up and began to look amusingly towards the prince with perfect indifference.
When Tripristha Kumāra was walking leisurely onward, observing the scenery of verdure sinking down low under the weight of fruits, listening to the melodious sound of the dance and singing of females guarding the irrigated fields, and also enjoying the loveliness of the forest, he happened to see the lion On seeing him, the Kumāra thought ::-"Ah! this high-minded soul is walking on the ground, and I am riding on a chariot yoked with excellent horses, equipped with various weapons, and furnished with gingling bells producing
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