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miserable condition, addressing Ghorasiva said: "Ah! what are you looking at? Ghorasiva, with a faltering voice, replied:—“ I am, O great king. witnessing the result of the maturity of my yesting. The king said " Why do you talk despondently Now, have courage in every way. Abandon wicked thoughts, leave aside your itching of anger, forsake the desire for triumph, have love for mental calm, drink the elixir of compassion, thlok about appropriateness or the otherwise, and renounce completely your addictionts to methods of work suitable for low persons. Besides, If you are grieved at the non-accomplishment of your wishedfor object, you take up my sword resembling the tongue of the enraged God of Death, and darkening all the directions by the mass of its dark radiance, and accomplish your desired object by the destruction of my body, because I leave aside the least idea of pride for the accomplishment of your object. Besides, leaving aside the question of this body-which is transitory and worthless, wise persons live only for the welfare of others. However, there was a special reason why I did not give up my body first for your sake but only caused an interruption in your concentration of meditation. By my death, the entire populace and especially pious persons will be made spiritually depraved by wicked individuals, but looking to your intense agony now, my heart, becoming very hard, has become indifferent to other matters. Ghorasiva said "O extremely fortunate man! do not say so, may you be long-lived as long as the mountains seas, the Moon, stars, and the Sun exist even at the loss of my life. But kindly grant me one favour”. The King said "Why do you talk like this? Is any thing else more precious to be given than the gift of life? Then, ask it without any reserve on your part, Ghorasiva said "If it be so, you give me permission to enter the fire of the burning-ground, devouring the mass of butterflies in thousands of flames actively burning there, and inaccessible on account of foul odour arising from half burnt bodies remaining to be completely burnt away. By doing this, you will become my great benefactor, I am completely everwhelmed by a mountain of great crimes previously done and there is no resting
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