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________________ TRANSLATION 331 519. then how can munis be covetous of money belonging to others ?' 'Others are like that but not you,' replied Kuñcika. 520. Thus in the Manipaticarita which resembles an ocean of jewels represented by the virtues of good sādhus, the salutary tale of Nāgadatta, the tenth, has been related by Kuñcika. 521. Again, Kuñcika said: “There is no doubt : you are like the forester.' Manipati replied: "Tell me how.' Said Kuñcika : 522. A certain carpenter who had gone to the forest to get timber saw a lion and being afraid, climbed to the summit of a tree. Then he noticed a she-ape and 523. was scared but she reassured him saying: 'Do not be afraid.' At length at night be began to be drowsy. 524. So the ape put him in her lap and made him sleep nor did she throw him to the lion though the latter de manded this repeatedly. 525. Then he got up and the ape in question slept in his lap; but when the lion asked him he threw her down. However she did not fall 526. but by her agility grasped at a branch of the tree and clung to it. She said : ‘Shame on you, infamous man, for acting thus.' 527. Meantime there came up along that road a great caravan and the lion went away and later the carpenter went home. 528. So,Manipati, by stealing the money of me, your bene factor, you have become like the carpenter : how then . can you be a good sådhu ?'. 529. Thus in the Maņipaticarita, resembling the sun which dispels darkness the tale of the carpenter, the eleventh, has here been told by Kuñcika. 530. Then said Maạipati: 'It was by false suspicion that a certain Cārabhați who destroyed a mongoose fell into great remorse.
SR No.007017
Book TitleTwo Prakrit Versions of Manipati Charitra
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorR Williams
PublisherRoyal Asiatic Society
Publication Year1959
Total Pages384
LanguageEnglish, Prakrit
ClassificationBook_English
File Size9 MB
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