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forsake (the object of love), this surely is opposed to a constant mind. Othen, for pity's sake! return to your home, and thus appease my foolish longings.' 461
The prince having listened to Kandaka, pitying his grief expressed in so many words, with heart resolved and strong in its determination, spoke thus to him once more, and said : 462
Why thus on my account do you feel the pain of separation ? you should overcome this sorrowful mood, it is for you to comfort yourself; 463
'All creatures, each in its way, foolishly arguing that all things are constant, would influence me to-day not to forsake my kin and relatives; 464
"But when dead and come to be a ghost, how then, let them say, can I be kept ? My loving mother when she bore me, with deep affection painfully carried me, 465
"And then when born she died, not permitted to nourish me. One alive, the other dead, gone by different roads, where now shall she be found ? 466
Like as in a wilderness on some high tree all the birds living with their mates assemble in the evening and at dawn disperse, so are the separations of the world ; 467
The floating clouds rise (like) a high mountain, from the four quarters they fill the void, in a moment again they are separated and disappear; so is it with the habitations of men; 468
'People from the beginning have erred thus, binding themselves in society and by the ties of love, and then, as after a dream, all is dispersed ; do not then recount the names of my relatives ; 469
'For like the wood which is produced in spring,
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