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50 passagesन यत् स्वर्गेऽपि सौख्यं स्याद् दिव्य-स्पर्शेन शोभने । कुस्थानेऽपि भवेत् पुंसां जन्मनो यत्र सम्भवः ॥
The happiness that may exist for people even in a bad place where the occurrence of their birth was—such happiness would not exist even in heaven, splendid through divine touch.
तन् न कदाचिद् अपि गन्तव्यम् । अहं त्वां बुद्धि-प्रभावेण रक्षयिष्यामि । मण्डूक आह-भद्रौ ! मम तावद् एकैव बुद्धिः पलायन-परा । तद् अहम् अन्य-जलाशयम् अद्यैव सभार्यो यास्यामि ।
“Therefore one must not ever go there. I shall protect you by the power of intelligence.” The frog said, “O good pair, as for me, my one and only intelligence is directed toward flight. Therefore I shall go this very day, with my wife, to another reservoir.”
एवम् उक्त्वा स मण्डूको रात्राव् एवान्य-जलाशयं गतः । धीवरैर् अपि प्रभाते आगत्य, जघन्य-मध्यमोत्तम-जलचराः मत्स्य-कूर्म-मण्डूक-कर्कटादयो गृहीताः । ताव् अपि शतबुद्धि-सहस्रबुद्धी सभार्यौ पलायमानौ चिरम् आत्मानं गति-विशेष-विज्ञानैः कुटिल-चारेण रक्षन्तौ जाले निपतितौ, व्यापादितौ च ।
Having said this, the frog went to another pond that very night. The fishermen, having come at dawn, caught aquatic creatures of the lowest, middle, and highest kinds—fish, turtles, frogs, crabs, and others. Those two, Śatabuddhi and Sahasrabuddhi, with their wives, though fleeing and protecting themselves for a long time through specialized knowledge of movement and crooked maneuvering, fell into the net and were killed.
अथापराह्न-समये प्रहृष्टास् ते धीवराः स्व-गृहं प्रति प्रस्थिताः । गुरुत्वाच् चैकेन शतबुद्धिः स्कन्धे कृतः सहस्रबुद्धिः प्रलम्बमानो नीयते । ततश् च वापीकण्ठोपगतेन मण्डूकेन तौ तथा नीयमानौ दृष्ट्वा अभिहिता स्वपत्नी-प्रिये ! पश्य पश्य-
Then, at the time of afternoon, those delighted fishermen set out toward their own home. Because of his weight, Śatabuddhi was placed on one man’s shoulder, while Sahasrabuddhi was carried dangling. Then, seeing the two being carried in that manner by the frog who had approached the edge of the pond, he said to his wife, “Dear, look, look—”
शतबुद्धिः शिरःस्थो ऽयं लम्बते च सहस्रधीः । एकबुद्धिर् अहं भद्रे क्रीडामि विमले जले ॥
“This Śatabuddhi is placed on a head, and Sahasradhī hangs down; I, Ekabuddhi, O good lady, play in the clear water.”
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