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Then move aside, so that I may inform the master. When this had been done, the tiger bowed and, intensely impassioned, said: “Master, let my life-sustenance be provided today by my life. Let an imperishable dwelling be given to me in heaven; let abundant fame for me be spread across the earth. Therefore, no wonder is appropriate here.” It is also said: “For servants who follow their masters in the master’s service after the masters have died, there is an imperishable dwelling in heaven and fame on earth.”
Hearing this, Krathanaka reflected: “All these others have uttered fine speeches, yet not even one has been destroyed by the master. Therefore I too shall speak to Citraka at the proper time, with a striking argument by which these three will all support my words.” Having decided this, he said: “Sir, what you have said is true; but you too are armed with claws. How, then, does the master eat you?” It is also said: “Whoever thinks, even mentally, of harmful things concerning those of his own kind, those very things come upon him both in this world and in the next.”
Therefore move aside from the front, so that I may inform the master. When this had been done in that way, Krathanaka stood in front, bowed, and said: “Master! These are not fit for you to eat; therefore, with my life-breaths let the maintenance of life be provided, by which my attainment of both worlds will come about.” And it is said:
Neither sacrificers attain that destination, nor indeed do yogins—the destination attained by the best servants who have cast away their lives for their master’s sake.
When this had been said, Krathanaka, his two flanks torn open by the jackal and the leopard, gave up his life; thereafter he was eaten by all those petty scholars.
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