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deeds ? Or, why should we have confidence even for a moment in external objects ? Or, leaving aside external objects, this bodythe temple of all beautiful fancies-for which efforts are made for the acquisition of constituent parts of kingdom such as elep hants, horses, chariots, warriors, young beautiful women, cities, mine-districts etc, is decidedly perishable like the momentarily seen and womentarily perishing cloud on account of its property of Birth, Destruction erc. Why should wise persons acguuire kingdoms for the fondling of this body-an accumulation of worthless materials formed as an above of bones, marrow, fat, blood, semen, flesh etc, overcome by bathing, anointing, food and other pracedures every day, fit to be proteced from cold, heat, and the evils of allments, which is full of extremely disquie ting foul smell resemling that of a pot filled with foces, which is lovely only externally and thoughtlessaly beautiful like the dolag of the wicked person and which is full of fondness for extreme pleasures like a great king and unmindful of the violent blows of the God of the Death, like a cat tastefully drinking milk? Why do they thoughtlessly commit slag. Why do they use weapons always for protecting it ? Why are they afraid of their enemies who may be living at the distance of thousands of yojanas when they over-look their internal enemies in the form of anger, greed etc which are constantly troubling them and which are always known to them? Why do they consider as fraudlessly affectionate, those followers who show astection only for their own personal interest? Why do they think as unperishable the wealth which is decidedly perishable ? Abl their carelessness, Ah their want of discrimination, Ah! che might of Moka (infatuation). Ah ! their subservlence to worldly restrictions, Ah! their carelessness about future miseries. Ah I their repugeance of looking to the fruition of evil deeda.” When Priyaaltra Cakravartin was reflecting on, thus, a bard proclaiming the heur of the day said "Ahl with the going of the lusterless Sun towards the West (with the settiag of the Sun) the swarms of bees are crying, as it were by the intense humming on account of the contraction of the day-lotus flowers, 2014 Cakra-vākas
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