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would lose his share of life's pleasures in striving to obtain a more exalted state of being Jambū rejoined, he would never quit the right path and told
The 13th story (45–106) of the excellent horse
In Vasantapura, the capital of king Jitaśatiu, lived Juadása, a pious merchant Once the king inspected the colts of his stud, and ordered the connoisseurs of horses to select the best one He gave the colt in charge of the aforesaid Jinadāsa, who tended at with the gieatest cale He himself led the horse to the tank and back On the way there iras a Jaina temple, round which he always rode thrice without entering it As the colt grew up, the power of the king increased His neighbours and rivals being of opion that the king's success depended on his possessing the marvellous horse, resolved to rid bum of it When all their efforts to get or kill the horse had failed, the minister of one hostile lang ventured to steal it by deceiving its guard in the guse of a Jaina layman he visited Jinanāsa and completely gained his confidence Once when Jinadāsa had to go to some relations of his, he left the house in charge of his friend, the disguised minister, and set out on his journey In the next night the mister got on the horse but though he tried hard the whole night, he could not make the horse qut its accustomed route, from the house to the tank, round the temple, and back At the break of day he had to give up his plan and made his escape
Kanakasenā then told The 14th story (108–121) of the imprudent boy
In a village lived the poor widow of a grāmakūta together with her idle son When she once reproached him with his inactivity, the boy promised he would henceforth do all in his power to gain the means of living Some time afterwards then the villagers bad assembled to gossip, the donkey of a bhämaha broke loose, and the owner ran after it, calling on all to stop the animal The boy now thought there was a chance of gaining
1 In the dictionaries this word is said to mean the noblest man in a village
