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EMANCIPATION OF AJITA SVĀMIN AND SAGARA 177 cloud. O Fate, today make fall an unexpected cruel stroke of lightning on us like lizards. O breath, for you there are happy courses. Go wherever you wish. Leave our bodies like hired tents. Come, deep sleep, 386 removing all pains; or Mandākini, rise, and give death by water. O forest-fire, appear in this forest on the mountain. We shall follow the path of our husbands, as if from friendship for you. Oh ! hair, give up friendship today with wreaths of flowers. Eyes, let a handful of water (for funeral rites) be given to you for collyrium. Cheeks, do not itch for decorations with unguent. Lip, do not desire contact with lac. Ears, abandon jeweled ear-rings, as well as listening to songs. Neck, henceforth do not long for neckornaments. Breasts, today a necklace is for you like snow for lotuses. Heart, fall in two pieces at once like a ripe melon. Arms, enough of bracelets and armlets like burdens for you. Hips, give up the girdle like the moon its light at dawn. O feet, enough of foot-ornaments as if they had never been obtained. Body, enough of ointments as if made of cowhage.” 886
The forests, like relatives, wept with echoes of such pathetic cries of the women of the household.
The general, the vassals, kings, etc., said various things indicating sorrow, shame, anger, fear, etc.
"Oh! Sons of our master, where have you gone? We do not know. Tell us, that we may follow you, obedient to our master's instructions. Or have you used some magic art of disappearance in this case? But it is not right to employ it to distress servants. How will our master look on our faces if we, like murderers of rishis, go without you who are lost or vanished ? The world will ridicule us if we go now without you. O heart, burst at once like a pitcher of unbaked clay wet with water. Halt! Halt ! rogue of a serpent! Where have you gone
835 15. Mahātandra (?). 886 22. Kapikacchū. Its contact causes irritation.
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