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50 passagesसो ऽब्रवीत्-अहं तावद् युष्मद्-अर्थम् इमाम् आपदं मेघवर्णेन प्रापितः । तद् इच्छामि तेषां वैर-यातनार्थम् उलूकत्वम् इति ।
He said: “I have been brought into this calamity by Meghavarṇa for your sake. Therefore I wish to become an owl in order to exact revenge on them.”
तच् च श्रुत्वा राजनीति-कुशलो रक्ताक्षः प्राह-भद्र ! कुटिलस् त्वं कृतक-वचन-चतुरश् च । तावद् उलूक-योनि-गतो ऽपि स्वकीयाम् एव वायस-योनिं बहु मन्यसे । श्रूयते चैतद् आख्यानकम् ।
Hearing that, Raktākṣa, skilled in statecraft, said: “Good sir, you are deceitful and clever at fabricated speech. Even after entering the owl species, you greatly esteem your own crow species. This tale is heard.”
सूर्यं भर्तारम् उत्सृज्य पर्जन्यं मारुतं गिरिम् । स्व-जातिं मूषिका प्राप्ता स्वजातिर् दुरतिक्रमा ॥
Abandoning the sun as her husband, the mouse reached the cloud, the wind, and the mountain; she reached her own kind. One’s own kind is difficult to transcend.
मन्त्रिणः प्रोचुः--कथम् एतत् ?
The ministers said, “How is this?”
रक्ताक्षः कथयति-
Raktākṣa tells the story:
Panchatantra
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