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Jambu Kumāra then said, “ People enjoying many varied pleasures are not satisfied like ÁTTATT Angārkāraka.
THE STORY OF ANGĀRAKĀRAKA. At the town of aggr Candrapura, there lived a charcoalburner named ein Candra. One day in summer, he went to a forest with some quantity of water for the purpose of preparing coals. While preparing coals, the quantity of water he had with him, soon became exhausted. He became very thirsty at night and his mouth and palate dried up While sleeping at night and afflicted with excessive thirst, be drank the whole quantity of water existing then in wells, lanks, rivers, and lakes, and finally went to a well in an arid place Exceedingly distressed with unquenclable thirst, the charcoal-burner standing near a Banyana Tree, threw a bunch of straw tied to a rope into the deep well, ard began to lick drops of water trickling from it. The charcoal-burner's thirst was not at all quenched by any means
In the same manner, all huinan beings experiencing the pleasures of breast-feeding, sexual intercourse with women, and putting on of valuable clothes and ornamients, are not satisfied. But I am not anxious about the pleasures of this world.
quear Padmasenā, then, said, " O husband' being desirous of Mukti, fem-Emancipation-you do not lose both, like the jackal, while abandoning the prosperous state acquired in this world. For instance
THE STORY OF THE JACKAL.
A jackal acquired a piece of flesh in some forest. He went to the bank of a lake with it. Though desirous of eating that piece of flesh, the jackal on seeing fish thrown out of the current of water, became anxious to catch it out of ardent longing for it When the jackal leaving the piece of flesh on the ground, ran forward to catch the fish, the fish at once
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