Two Prakrit Versions of Manipati Charitra

Author(s): R Williams
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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TRANSLATION
173 — Again she said :
---- 470. If you do not give me the campaka garland for the cour
tesans, etc..... - Again the elephant attendant said : 471. Whoever digs up the roots of a tree whose flowers and
other products he eats and under whose protection he
dwells is of a swinish nature. — Magadhasenā said : 472. The man who thieves from one person may be the pre
server of the property of another : not every man who
destroys a tree is in every way like a pig. . 473. If you do not give me this campaka garland ornament,
etc.... - The elephant attendant said: 474. You will not bathe in the water of the Māgadhī, you will
not drink its water, you will not amuse yourself on the Vaibhāra mountain : in short if you cease to exist
what will there be ? 475. Gold becomes pure when beaten, when beaten clothes
become clean, drums when beaten give forth sound,
when beaten women become obedient. 476. The elephant rider said: “There are hundreds of women
for me, if you do not put this advice into effect you
will die without having any pleasure.' 477. the elephant groom said: 'He whose mind will not
respond to his own interest when people talk to him of his interest is brought under control by burning just
as the palāśa tree was burned by the brahmin.' 478. The elephant rider asked : 'Who was this brahmin,
good sir, whom you referred to in my presence ?'.
The other replied : 'Listen attentively: 479. In a principal city of the northern country where there
were no palāśa trees dwelt a brahmin and on one
occasion he went 480. to a village where he saw a paláša tree resplendent in the
pride of spring, bearing flowers like the nail marks of Kāmadeva