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30 passagesदयित-जन-विप्रयोगो वित्त-वियोगश् च सह्याः स्युः । यदि सुमहौषध-कल्पो वयस्य-जन-संगमो न स्यात् ॥
Separation from a beloved person and separation from wealth could be endured, if the association of a friend, which is like a very powerful medicine, did not exist.
वरं प्राण-परित्यागो न वियोगो भवादृशैः । प्राणा जन्मान्तरे भूयो न भवन्ति भवद्-विधाः ॥
Better the giving up of life than separation from such as you; lives may come again in another birth, but those of your kind do not come to be again.
एवं तस्य प्रवदत आकर्ण-पूरित-शरासनो लुब्धको ऽप्य् उपागतः । तं दृष्ट्वा मूषकेण तस्य स्नायु-पाशस् तत्-क्षणात् खण्डितः । अत्रान्तरे चित्राङ्गः सत्वरं पृष्ठम् अवलोकयन् प्रधावितः । लघुपतनको वृक्षम् आरूढः । हिरण्यकश् च समीप-वर्ति बिलं प्रविष्टः । अथासौ लुब्धको मृग-गमनाद् विषण्ण-वदनो व्यर्थ-श्रमस् तं मन्थरकं मन्दं मन्दं स्थल-मध्ये गच्छन्तं दृष्टवान् । अचिन्तयच् च-यद्य् अपि कुरङ्गो धात्रापहृतस् तथाप्य् अयं कूर्म आहारार्थं सम्पादितः । तद् अद्यास्यामिषेण मे कुटुम्बस्याहार-निर्वृत्तिर् भविष्यति ।
While he was speaking thus, the hunter also arrived, with his bow drawn up to his ear and ready to shoot. Seeing him, the mouse cut the hunter's snare at that very moment. Meanwhile, Citrāṅga ran away quickly while looking back; Laghupatanaka climbed a tree; and Hiraṇyaka entered a nearby burrow. Then that hunter, his face dejected because the deer had escaped and his effort had been fruitless, saw Mantharaka moving very slowly in the middle of the open ground. He thought: “Although the deer has been taken away by fate, this tortoise has nevertheless been obtained for food. With this meat, the sustenance of my household will be secured today.”
एवं विचिन्त्य तं दर्भैः सञ्छाद्य धनुषु समारोप्य स्कन्धे कृत्वा गृहं प्रति प्रस्थितः । अत्रान्तरे तं नीयमानम् अवलोक्य हिरण्यको दुःखाकुलः पर्यदेवयत्-कष्टं भोः कष्टम् आपतितम् ।
Having thought thus, he covered him with darbha grass, placed him on his bow, put him on his shoulder, and set out toward home. Meanwhile, seeing him being carried away, Hiraṇyaka, overwhelmed with grief, lamented: “Alas, hardship! Hardship has befallen us.”
एकस्य दुःखस्य न यावद् अन्तं गच्छाम्य् अहं पारम् इवार्णवस्य । तावद् द्वितीयं समुपस्थितं मे छिद्रेष्व् अनर्था बहुली-भवन्ति ॥
Before I reach the end of one sorrow and cross over it as though it were the ocean, a second one has arisen for me; in the gaps, misfortunes multiply.
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