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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
The tusker, finding him upon the ground, passed
by without hurting him. But the driver, picking
himself up with unappeased passion, went again
in quest of the elephant, which he found in the
midst of the forest. There he dug a trench, covering
it up with dry leaves and grass. The elephant, after
roaming through the forest, came at length to the
place where the trench was, and fell into it.
Instantly the Mahout made it fast. Thus again was
the elephant subjected to torture. Had this creature,
which was like unto the great (king), Bali, when
guarding his own mansion, dashed out the brains
of its enemy at the time when the Mahout lay
prostrate before it, it would not again have fallen
into the trap, nor have been thus again agitated.
Likewise, those who make no enquiry concerning
the good and evil of the future will come to grief.
When Kumbha-Muni had related this [story,
6ikhidwaja asked him to give the reason why he
had narrated the incidents concerning
Chinthamani and the elephant; to which Kumbha-
Muni, of steady mind, thus replied: By that person,
who, though acquainted with all the Sastras, yet
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