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50 passagesक्षुद्रम् अलसं कापुरुषं व्यसनिनम् अकृतज्ञं जीवित-कामः । पृष्ठ-प्रलपन-शीलं स्वामित्वे नाभियोजयेत् ॥
A person who desires life should not appoint a petty, lazy, cowardly, vice-ridden, ungrateful backbiting chatterer to authority.
तथा च- क्षुद्रम् अर्थपतिं प्राप्य न्यायान्वेषण-तत्-परौ । उभाव् अपि क्षयं प्राप्तौ पुरा शशक-पिञ्जलौ ॥
And likewise: after obtaining a petty lord of wealth, the two, devoted to seeking justice, formerly both met their destruction—the rabbit and the francolin.
ते प्रोचुः-कथम् एतत् ?
They said, “How is this?”
स आह- कथा २ शश-कपिञ्जल-कथा
He said: “The story of the rabbit and the francolin.”
कस्मिंश्चिद् वृक्षे पुराहम् अवसम् । तत्राधस्तात् कोटरे कपिञ्जलो नाम चटकः प्रतिवसति स्म । अथ सदैवास्तम् अनवेलायाम् आगतयोर् द्वयोर् अनेक-सुभाषित-गोष्ठ्या देवर्षि-ब्रह्मर्षि-राजर्षि-पुराण-चरित-कीर्तनेन च पर्यटन-दृष्टानेक-कौतूहल-प्रकथनेन च परम-सुखम् अनुभवतोः कालो व्रजति । अथ कदाचित् कपिञ्जलः प्राण-यात्रार्थम् अन्यैश् चटकैः सहान्यं पक्व-शालि-प्राञं देशं गतः । ततो यावन् निशा-समयेऽपि नायातस् तावद् अहं सोद्वेग-मनास् तद्-विप्रयोग-दुःखितश् चिन्तितवान्-अहो किम् अद्य कपिञ्जलो नायातः । किं केनापि पाशेन बद्धः ? आहो स्वित् केनापि व्यापादितः ? सर्वथा यदि कुशलो भवति, यन् मां विना न तिष्ठति ।
Formerly I lived in a certain tree. There below, in a hollow, there used to live a sparrow named Kapiñjala. Then, whenever the two of us had come back at sunset, time would pass for us as we experienced the highest pleasure through conversation containing many fine sayings, through recounting the ancient deeds of divine seers, Brahman-seers, and royal seers, and through telling of many wonders seen in our wanderings. Then once Kapiñjala, for the sake of sustaining his life, went with other sparrows to another region of ripe rice, the transmitted wording being pakva-śāli-prāñaṃ; the exact force of prāñaṃ is uncertain, perhaps “mostly/abounding in” if it stands for prāyaṃ. Thereafter, when he had not come even at night-time, I, anxious in mind and grieved by separation from him, thought: “Alas, why has Kapiñjala not come today? Has he been caught in some snare? Or perhaps has he been killed by someone? In any case, if he is safe—since he does not stay without me.”
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