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will be satisfied."
The goat said: "This barley of Cakrin Brahmadatta is guarded for the horses. There would be death to me in taking it." The doe said, " I shall die, if you do not bring the barley." The goat replied, "If you are dead, I shall have another wife."
She said again, "Look! The cakrin gives up life to please his wife. He is the quintessence of affection, but you have no affection for me, alas!"
The goat said: The husband of many women is ready to die at the speech of one woman. That is folly. I am not a fool like him. If the queen dies with him, there will be no union in the next birth. People's states of existence have different paths, depending on their karma."
After he heard their talk, the cakrin reflected: The goat spoke well. Why should I, bewildered by a mere woman, die?" The king, delighted, put a gold necklace and a garland of flowers on the goat's neck and went home. He restrained the queen, saying, "I shall not die on your advice." And he directed the realm again, with a cakravartin's splendor unbroken. Thus sporting in many ways, Brahmadatta passed seven hundred, less sixteen, years from birth.
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Brahmadatta's blinding (572-596)
One day a Brahman, an old acquaintance, said to him, "Cakravartin, give me the (same) food that you eat yourself."
Brahmadatta said: "Brahman, my food is very hard to digest; but when it is digested for a long time, it leads to a great frenzy."
Then Brahman said, “ You are very stingy in giving food. Shame on you!" and the king fed him and his household with his own food. During the night a tree of insane love with a hundred branches appeared violently in the Brahman from his porridge like a seed. The Brahman and his sons, like cattle, committed sins in love with mother, sister, and daughter-in-law unrecognized. Then at the end of the night the Brahman
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