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& tinkling sonorous sound. It is not appropriate for superior persons to have a fight with unequal partners." With this idea in his mind, the Kumára holding a sword as terrifying as the tongue of the enraged God of Death, and shining like the flower of the linseed plant, in his right hand, and a shield resembling a diec of the Full Moon and budding stars in his left hand, got down from the chariot and kept standing on the ground again thinking thus--" This poor creature is armed only with deep molar teeth in his mouth and with dull and curved claws stirred up by his fore-foot, and I carry a sharp sword and a shield in my hand. It is not reasonable." Thinking thus, Tripristha Kumāra left off his sword and shleld. On seeing this unnatural behaviour of the Kumāra, the lion angrily thought:--" Ah - How respectfully was I guarded by the kings with a careful arrangement of intoxicated big elephants, horses, chariots and warriors ? Although they were proud about their excessive valour and were fond of the battle-field, none had boldness to come into my death-like range of vision. And this recency-weaned child, with a body as tender as fresh buiter, unequipped with any horse, elephant, or a brave warrior, bat, on the contrary, getting down with perfect indifference from his excellent chariot, talking indifferently with amusement while standlog on the ground, besides, leaving off the din of a weapon out of pride of his own strength of arms and considering myself as a gnat is ready to enter my cave. Do not all the living beings see or bear that even such persons are now ready to insult me? Although my curved lance-like claws are powerful enough to pierce the temples of lordly elephants, however, let me show him the fruit of his intensely unseemly behaviour."
With this intention, as soon as, the lion, as if smashing the belly of the universe by the sound of his roar; as is crushing the surface of the earth by the dashing of his tall, as if filling up the interior of the sky with the mass of rays of his molar teeth appearing visibly in his widely expanded mouth; as if permeating all the quarters with constantly
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