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CHAPTER ONE the field. Such is the duty of slaves. As they lay at night, one was bitten by a cobra, like a brother of Kștānta, that had emerged from a hollow in a banyan. The second one, walking around to find the snake, was soon bitten by the same evil snake, as if from enmity. As no antidote was available, the two, pitiable, died. As they had come, so they went. Alas for their fruitless birth.
They were born twin-deer of a doe on the plateau of Mt. Kaliñjara and they grew up together. Roaming together with affection, the two deer were killed by a hunter. They both died at the same time by the same arrow. After death, they both were born twin-sons, as in former births, of a rājahansi on the Gangā. One day as they were playing in the same place, a fisherman caught them in a net and killed them by breaking their necks. Such is the fate of those devoid of dharma.
Citra and Sambhūta (20-102) Then they became sons of a Mātanga-chief, named Bhatadatta, who was endowed with much wealth, in Vārāṇasī. Named Citra and Sambhūta, devoted to each other, they were never separated, joined like a finger-nail and the flesh.
At that time the king in Vārāṇasi was named Sankha and 'he had a celebrated minister, named Namuci. One day the king handed him over secretly to Bhūtadatta for execution, his crime being very great. He said to Namuci secretly, “ I will guard you like my own life, if you, hidden in an underground chamber, will teach my sons.” Namuci agreed to the Mātanga-chief's proposition. There is nothing that people who desire to live will not do.
Accordingly, he taught the various arts to Citra and Sambhūta; and he dallied with the infatuated wife of the Mātanga-chief. Bhūtadatta discovered that and prepared to kill him. Who can endure the evil of an adulterer in the case of his own wives? He was conducted far away by the Mätanga's sons, who learned their father's intention), and a
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