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22. SECTION ON THE HUNTER
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The Section on Lions
200) What can the female deer achieve even with her many young ones (fawns), which are devoid of dogged determination and self-respect? The lioness sleeps comfortably (free from worry) even if she has a single cub capable of tearing to pieces hosts of elephants.
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201) Our homage to those lords of beasts (i.e. to lions) of pure pedigree! Oh how marvellous! In this world whatever lions are of noble extraction are capable of splitting open the temples of elephants!
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202) Do not suppose that people cone to possess greatness (eminence) only by dint of their tall physical stature. A lion; though small in proportions, breaks open the temples of (even) mighty (huge) elephants.
203) Both are born in the forest, but it is only the elephants and not the lions that are captured and imprisoned. For men of high spirit would sooner die than allow themselves to be subjected to humiliation.
22. The Section on the Hunter of wild game
204) Oh wife of the hunter, when a fight started between a lion and a lordly elephant, both of whom were later on wounded by the impact (blow) of one single arrow (shot by your husband), how is it that you do not feel ashamed, but on the contrary you dance in joy, when (as a matter of fact) the exploit of your husband only reveals (or is a sad commentary on) your misfortune (in the form of the weakening of his attachment for you)?
205) How possibly can there be (even) in the palaces of kings that pomp and splendour (display of opulence), which is met with (observed) in the house of a hunter of wild game, namely, that meat is purchased by offering the pearls obtained from the temples of elephants split open by the hunter?
206) Lucky is the day to-day in that the hunter's wife maddened with the consciousness of her beauty and youthful charm,
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