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phants and their young onces. Being extremely pas.zionate and very fond of sensual enjoyments, you took with you some of your favourite female elephants, and you went to several mountains, rivers, far-extending forests, pools with lotuses, and other beautiful places, amusing your self with them.
One day, in the month of Jyéstha (June-July) during a severe tempest of wind, a fire commenced by rubbing together of trees, and it spread in all the directions in the forest. All the elephants and female-elephants of your batch ran away in different directions out of fright, and they became separated from you. You, becoming thirsty, entered a pond full of mire, but not knowing the correct path, you became immersed in the mire, and being far away from water and from the bank of the pond, and being wounded by the tusks of your enemy-elephants of previous life, you suffered severe agonies for seven days, and died having completed an age- limit of one hundred and twenty
years.
During the next- life, you were born as an elephant of red colour with four tusks-a leader of seven hundred female elephants-at Mount Vindhyācala. During that life also you were very fond of sexual pleasures. One day, on seeing a forest---- fire, you at once ran to a well-guarded locality. After going there you had a remembrance of a forest-fire of your previous life. You had an idea that such forest-fires very often occur in these forests, therefore, a well-guarded place should be kept ready for emergencies With that idea in your mind, you removed trees, shrubs, leaves, weeds etc. from an extensive area on the southern bank of the river and made that place wellguarded against fire, making a circle, of about four miles You made your lodging near that locality, and your used to remove shrubs, weeds, leaves etc at the beginning, middle, and end of the rainy season.
Again, there was a severe fire in the forest. But before you reached the well-guarded locality prepared by you, the place
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