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१ अपुत्रस्य गतिनास्ति स्वर्गों नैव च नैव च।
तस्मारपुत्रमुखं दृष्ट्वा, स्वर्ग गच्छन्ति मानवाः ॥१॥ 1. Aputrasya gati-r-nāsti svargo naiva ca naiya ca ;
Tasmātputra-mukham driśvā svargam gacchanti mānavān. 1. A son-less individual does not possess a prosperous futare in the next life. He decidedly cannot go to heaven. Therefore, people go to heaven, after seeing the face of a son. Jambu Kumāra said,
१ अनेकानि सहस्राणि कुमार-ब्रह्मचारिणाम् ।
स्वर्ग गतानि राजेन्द्र ! अकृत्वा कुलसन्ततिम् ॥१॥ 1. Anékāni sahasrāņı kumārabr-ahmacāriņām;
Svargam gatāni Rāịéndra ! a-krityā kula-santatim.
1. O kinçi many thousands of bachelor religious students have gone son-less to heaven, without prolonging their continuous family.
Many persons with sons, go to hell. Now, Listen,
“In a beautiful city, named afsat Tāmalini, resembling the divine capital of Indra, there lived a wealthy merchant named Wat Mahèśvaradatta. He was daily practising sacred ablutions, sacrifices, oblations to the manes etc. He had & wicked wife named at foret Nāgilā. On the funeral day of his dead father, ihe merchant killed a large bull, and was eating his flesh along with his family-members. At that time, a mendicant came there on a begging tour, but on seeing the merchant partaking of the flesh of a bull, he returned back, repeating the following verse:
पुष्णाति स्वपितुर्मासैः शत्रुमुत्सङ्गसङ्गिनम् । विषये च पितुः श्राद्धमहो मोहस्य विस्मितम् ॥ १ ॥
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