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without the permission of Jinadas seth and drove them for a very long time. Both the bulls were extremely handsome and
of tender frame and with their bodies smeared with a constant flow of blood coming out from wounds caused by pricking with them iron-pokers during harsh driving and previously ignorant of terrible agony, both of them became lustreless with a bleeding heart. That pitiless friend of Jinadas śeth, tied them in the oourt-yard of seth's house and went away leaving both of them in a miserable state. When, at dinner time Jinadas seth came there with barley corn and grass for them, he S&W both the bulls with their bodies shaking, with tears flowing slowly from their eyes, and with streams of blood flowing from their wounds. On seeing the piteons condition of his bulls, the śeth angrily Inquired, "What wicked rogue has brought these bulls to such a miserable condition?" A servant narrated the complete account of his friend's doings. Jinadās seth became greatly afflicted at heart.
Now the two bulls Kambala and Sambala, with their bodies completely worn out with severe beating, did not take fodder and water that was respectfully placed before them, with a desire of practising anasana (abstinence from food and drink). When however, they did not take whatever was given to them although that was repeatedly offered, jinadas śeth knowing their intention, gave them a vow of abstinence from food and water and it was respectfully accepted. The compassionate seth, left off all his house-hold business, and henceforth, remaining with both of them as he would with his own affectionate brothers, he said "You should not in the least, become angry with that cruel man for having brought you to such a pitiable condition. What else can anyone expect from an individual drowned in Samsara ! No one is born absolutely happy in this world. Evil Karmas done in former lives subdue, like the God of Death, living beings even though they may be enclosed in tight cages or in fortresses on mountain-tops, and they greatly torment living beings fluttering with agony in various ways like a sparrow confined in a mechanical contrivance for killing it, uttering unpleasant cries, dependent on the will of another. O good souls, therefore, adopt due protection 47
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