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effort; may you take food. For, a living man crossing the calamity, can, without fail, obtain prosperity. The king said Devas'arman, I have never given up the human effort proper for the time. I took to friarhood mentally. Hence my mind is not under the sway of the desire of the prosperity. [121] I have taken to non-eating, knowing the proper time. Hence I will not take food." He said "If you are not going to take food, your son will get angry. "The king said "His anger is without ground; anchorites are of truthful vow." He said, "My lord, you know the full account of the life of prince; therefore may he not do a sinful act towards you."
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In the meantime, finding that Deavas'arman delaying, Prince Ananda, under the heat of anger, came holding a dagger. He said "If you do not take food, I will cut off your head with a sword, imitating the tongue of the god of death." The king said,
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Who-knowing that this residence in the shape of body is not eternal, not substantial and ends in death-would, O king, regret when one has to go to death surely? (209)
How does a man say for one 'he lives' while he, from his life in the womb, is gradually dying like a lake drying up with the lessening of water? (210)
If one of the co-travellers in a caravan, starting for the next world as it were, goes there first, what is in this case the cause of fear? (211)
What hope is there for life to a man-as to an animal at a slaughter-house-to a man, who has the
