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TWO PRAKRIT VERSIONS OF THE MANIPATI-CARITA
1121. Sensual pleasure. [Viṣaya-ja-rasa]: thus comprehending the glory of intelligence she recited at the instance of her husband a gūḍha-caturtha:
1122. O thou of illustrious race adored by the three worlds, supreme god of gods, Lord Jina long may thou be victorious, thou of great power, a boat across the ocean of existence, my sanctity, the fosterer, born of the navel of Śri.
1123. With an anuṣṭubh metre in a vasantatilaka metre I have recited this guḍha-caturtha, O lord of my life.' 1124. Nāgadatta reflecting for a moment (said: The primal divinity has sought refuge in your verse and is not to be extracted from there?)
1125. O god born from a tender navel, thou who conferrest boons in the three worlds, of famed qualities, the giver, fortune, refulgent from the three gunas.'
1126. Like fire from drops of water, through such words his desire for asceticism began to grow so that its nourishment was not enough.
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1127. Then he said to her: My dear, it is an unheard-of evolution of fate that we even though we are aware should yet be deluded by delusion.
1128. Even though the five arrows are but made of flowers and even though the bow, empty of a bow-string, is but a stem of sugar-cane, yet Kamadeva indeed conquers every day the three worlds to be conquered: so let Destiny, the Creator, who astounds the mind by contact with a succession of miracles, who greatly transcends the limit of thought and who is worthy of adoration, be worshipped.
1129. Very powerful is the tree of illusion through meditating on beginningless existence; but misery is eradicated by those who are very assiduous.
1130. Meanwhile shouting arose in another house. She asked him: Darling what is this I have just heard? '
