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Having successfully attained his object and being accepted as the supreme lord of thirty-two thousand theatrical performances combined with thirty-two actors, sixteen thousand Yaksas, three hundred sixty-three cooks, eighteen rows and subsidiary rows, eighty-four lac horses, eighty-four thousand big elephants, ninty-six crore human beings, seventy-two thousand excellent towns, thirty-two-thousand provinces, ninety-nine thousand droņa mukhas (towas having access by land and water) twentyfour thousand karbatas (small towns) forty-eight thousand cities, twenty-four thousand madambas (villages without a village in a radius of one yojana) twenty thousand mine-districts, sixteen hundred khétas (towns with mud walls,) fourteen thousand valient warriors, crown princes, merchants, commanders, etc, Priyamitra Cakravartin pasged his days merrily, enjoying the most excellent pleasures of the world,
Renunciation.
46 When one day Priyamitra Cakravartin was calmly looking at the sky from the uppermost part of his palace, he saw a rece. nty-formed and slighty expanded cloud as daak as lamp-black, a wash, a wild buffalo, a cackoo, or the waters of Jamnă river, which appeared formidable on account of thrilling lightning; which was hand-some like purified gold or like a row of white cowa, which was lovely by the elegance of the delightful rainbow, which was pleasant by the mass of drops of slowly pouring showers of rain, and which was capable of making peacocks dance joyfully by the melodious roaring, and when that cloud was, in a moment spread out in various directions and destroyed in every way by a powerful gust of forcible wind, Priyamitra Cakravartin thought:--"Ahl what is the nature of transformation of objects? That the extremely delightful mass of clouds developed beautifully in a moment and disappeared completely In the next moment, By inference all the objects in the world undergo the same change. Why should there be a logical impediment or gratification for an object perishable in a moment or why should there be an effort for a regular succession of
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