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50 passagesतद् एक-मठ-प्राप्त्यापि त्वं गर्वितः । त्यक्तः सुहृत्-स्नेहः । नैतद् वेत्सि यत् त्वया मठाश्रय-व्याजेन नरकोपार्जनं कृतम् । उक्तं च-
Therefore, even after obtaining a single monastery, you have become proud; you have abandoned the affection of a friend. You do not realize that, under the pretext of sheltering in the monastery, you have earned hell. It has also been said:
नरकाय मतिस् ते चेत् पौरोहित्यं समाचार । वर्षं यावत् किम् अन्येन मठ-चिन्तां दिन-त्रयम् ॥
If your mind is set on hell, practice priestly service. For as long as a year, what need is there of anything else? Give thought to the monastery for three days.
तन्-मुखं, शोचितव्यस् त्वं गर्वं गतः । तद् अहं त्वदीयं मठं परित्यज्य यास्यामि ।
For that reason, you, having fallen into pride, are to be pitied. Therefore I shall leave your monastery and go away.
अथ तच् छ्रुत्वा भय-त्रस्त-मनास् ताम्रचूडस् तम् उवाच-भो भगवन् ! मैवं वद । न त्वत्-समो ऽन्यो मम सुहृत् कश्चिद् अस्ति । परं तच् छ्रूयतां गोष्ठी-शैथिल्य-कारणम् । एष दुरात्मा मूषकः प्रोन्नत-स्थाने धृतम् अपि भिक्षा-पात्रम् उत्प्लुत्यारोहति, भिक्षा-शेषंच तत्रस्थं भक्षयति । तद्-अभावाद् एव मठे मार्जन-क्रियापि न भवति । तन् मूषक
Then, having heard that, Tāmracūḍa, his mind stricken with fear, said to him: “O venerable sir, do not speak so. There is no other friend of mine equal to you. But let this be heard: the reason for the slackening of the conversation. This wicked mouse leaps up and climbs onto the alms-bowl even when it is set in a raised place, and it eats the leftover alms situated there. Precisely because of the absence of that leftover food, even the cleaning-work in the monastery does not take place. Therefore, the mouse—”
मुहुर् मुहुस् ताडयामि । नान्यत् कारणम् इति । अपरम् एतत् कुतूहलं पश्यास्य दुर्तात्मनो यन् मार्जार-मर्कटादयो ऽपि तिरस्कृता अस्योत्पतनेन ।
I beat it again and again. That is the only reason. There is another curious thing: look, because of the leaping of this wicked one, even cats, monkeys, and others are put to shame.
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