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what is proper for me” The ministers said “O lord | Afvagriva is extremely powerful and he is very mysterious in the employment of secret designs and you are his servant always obedient and weak. Why should we have enmity with him? Anger beyond capacity results in one's own destruction." The king said " If such is the case, let the princes be sent." The miņisters said, "O lord! The princes have not yet become sufficiently powerful and they are ignorant of the method of service. How can they, then, be sent? Besides, it is said :"Even if wealth be at all capable of accomplishing very difficult objects, who will ever put his hand into a hole terrible with a huge snake! King's mind is necessarily attracted to a low-lying locality like water, which does not care what is accessible or what is not and which is full of foulness Besides, that service does not accomplish a fother's object like a very small bit of cotton. Service rendered to a king is destructive to one's own or another's Interest, because such service is destructive immediately to people destitute of the prescribed methods of service, and to people of unstable mind like an art accomplished in a wrong way. Thus, O lord, the princes are not clever enough to render service to the master. It is therefore better to persuade the messenger with sweet words."
At the suggestion of the ministers, King Prajāpati called the messenger into his presence and told him with pacifying words:- "O good man! You go and tell Prati-vāsudeva Ašvagriva:The princes are not competent to render you suitable service and 80 Prajāpati himself tbinks of coming." The messenger said, “Ah Prajāpati! Why do you repeatedly talk thus like a man rendered foolish by excess of blle ? You send the princes immediately or be ready for a fight; such is the order of the master.” With these words, the messenger left the place. But Tripristha Kumāra enraged by the bad words of the messenger, hit him with blows of sticks and kicks, and seizing him by the throat, drove him out by the back-door.
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