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entered the current of water. A kite taking hold of the piece of flesh by its powerful beak, flew high up into the sky.
The jackal losing both, was much grieved at heart.
In the same manner, while abandoning this wealth, you will lose the happiness of this world, as well as, that relating to the next world, like the jackal.
Jambu Kumāra, addressing, Padmasénă said "I will not become bewildered with attachment like the Vidyadhara Vidyunmāli and you also should not become bewildered like him. Now, listen to the story of the Vidyadhara.
THE VIDYADHARA.
STORY OF
At the town of a Gaganavallabha, which beautified the northern row of a Mount Vanadhya, there were two Vidyadhara brothers, named Mégharatha and Vidyunmāli. One day, both the brothers assumiug the apparel of a UF Mātanga, a man of the lowest class, went to a я Mātanga, a Candāla ( a man of the lowest class) in Vasantapura for the purpose of acquiring ataifa Matangi Vidya, because that Vidya (art) is not obtainable without a marriage and association with the daughter of a Mitanga With this idea in their mind they associated with Candalas. When they went there, the Candalas asked them, Who are you? Why have you come here? They replied We are sons of a nonAryan king of Sakétapur and we have been expelled from his kingdom. We have come here with the object of learning Matangi Vidya (art). All of them were greatly pleased on seeing both the princes. They kept them with them, and married their daughters with them.
The elder brother Mégharatha remaining chaste, had all the household work done by his wife and by intimacy with her, he learned Mātangi Vidyā, within a year, while his younger brother Vidyunmāli overcome with sensual desires, became deeply engrossed in the enjoyment of sexual pleasures with his wife. She became pregnant.
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