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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
the adoption of the course consistent with the
universal law, they were indifferent to pleasures
and pains or their intermediates and spurned as
paltry baubles wealth, women and the eight
Siddhis, such as Anima, etc., and then left for a
foreign country.
The king of that spacious country having died
without any male progeny, the ministers therein
deliberated upon the nomination of a successor,
when the beggar Bhageeratha of graceful mien
appeared upon the spot and was pitched upon as a
fit successor to the late king. Being anointed a king,
he wielded the sceptre over his realm, protected by
innumerable hosts of armies. This news was
wafted over to his former country from which the
courtiers therein repaired to him and implored him
thus „The king, whom you installed in your stead,
has expired. We are left without a ruler. So please
accept the responsibilities of ruling over our
kingdom too.‟
As it is not proper to spurn the wealth which
comes to one of its own accord, he assented to their
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