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24. THE SECTION ON THE CAMEL
214*3) The wife of the hunter did not lament so full-throatedly (profusely), even when her husband died, as when she heard the trumpeting sound of mighty elephants near the habitation of the huntsmen.
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214*4) On seeing a group of huntsmen in the region of their habitation, coming out in the early morning, with the mass of their hair dishevelled, the purchasers (or traders) of ivory go back (despairing of getting any elephant-tusks in a place where the huntsmen are living a dissolute nocturnal life and hence do not have any stamina left in them to kill elephants for ivory).
214*5) Let alone the killing of elephants. Your son is paring the bow-staff. What (otherwise) is the greatness (power) of our swelling, firm and heavy bosoms ?*
24. The Section on the Camel
226*1) Oh camel, do not at all desire to eat each and everysprout (that you come across). Your face (mouth) lifted up and long sighs emanating from your mouth, you will breathe your last, remembering your (favourite) creeper*.
226*2) Oh camel, do not feel sorry on tasting the bee-hive which has been obtained by you somehow, by chance. How possibly can things eagerly desired by one's heart be obtained every day?
225*3) Oh camel, you are sighing, weeping, feeling distressed, pining, worrying (fa) and are wandering about in grief (at = fau:). Surely (it must be said that) you tasted that creeper only to court your death ( मरणस्स कए).
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26. The Section on the Bee
252*1) If the bee, leaving aside the lotus excessively fragrant because of its prominent filaments (f) and honey, longs for the paṭala flowers, what is the (special) virtue (in those flowers) that is responsible for that?
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