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With this idea in his mind, Vaisyâyana put oil fine garments and went into the festival. There, he saw his own former mother in the midet o prostitutes. He became enamoured of her, and the five-arrowed Kāma déva (God of Love) was felt as thousand arrowed). Vaiśyāyana gave her an ornament along with tambūla (areca-nut rolled up in a betel-leaf). At night, with his body anointed with sandal-paste mixed with camphor, and with flower-gaslands fixed in tufts of his hair, and also with packets of areca-nut rolled up in betel-leaves, Vaisyāyana went in the direction of the prostitute's house. His family-deity thought:-"This ignotant man is ready to do an unworthy act without knowing the true nature of allairs, let me therefore instruct him." With this idea in ber mind, the family-deity duly assumed the form of a cow and a calf, and stood in his way. When Vaiśyāyana was walking briskly, his foot became soiled with foeces. Dreading something impure having come in contact with bis foot, and having nothing at hand with which to wipe it off, Valśyāyana tried to remove it by rubbing is on the back of the calf who was sitting near the cow. The calf addressing the cow in a tongue spoken by human beings, said "Mother! see, this man wipes bis foeces-defiled-foot on my body without caring for a sense of justice, and without the least apprehension. Can any body ever insult a subki-suta (an off spring of a cattle) in tbis way? The cow replied 'O child ! What more can I say? Do not be at all impatient. He is acting quite contrary to ordinary moral instinct." The call naively inquired “O mother! how is it possible! The cow answered O childt what else to say? The ignoble wreich la desirous of having sexual intercourse with his own mother. Therefore, O child! patiently endure every thing. You are lucky that you escape with this little only. What more heinous misdeed is there, which persone who have transgressed ihe bounds of morality, do not perform.! There is always a liking for true knowledge and the performace of a virtuous act, and there is always a fear of public censure so long as there is no violation of the boundary of shamo wbich is the mother of a
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