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The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

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it on his lap with eyes full of tears and sprinkled her with the water saying, “Please get<br />

up, dear; come back to me; it is not a place for you to come and die here in this forest.<br />

Come back to me and don’t stay in the deep forest. Let your consciousness not remain<br />

in the forest and with tigers; let not your consciousness be with cruel wild oxen; let your<br />

consciousness not be wandering; let not your consciousness be not far away in the<br />

forest; durato : let not your consciousness remain in a faraway thick forest; let not your<br />

consciousness remain in the caves crying; Agato: let your consciousness not remain with<br />

demon and spirits; let your consciousness not remain in the palm forest; let your<br />

consciousness not remain in the Himalaya mountain; let your consciousness not remain.<br />

Please get up; please come back. Let your consciousness not wander in the Himalaya<br />

mountain and come back quickly; let your consciousness not be a bee or an insect; let<br />

your consciousness not cry in the forest; let your consciousness not be an elephant to eat<br />

young bamboo. Let your consciousness come back to you, wherever you are. Here in<br />

the thick forest, why do you leave me alone? Today you die in this forest and I have no<br />

one to help me. Who will help me to cut firewood? Who will come to lift your head and<br />

wash your face? Who will come to bath you and comb your hair? Who will beautify<br />

you with beautiful earrings and prepare a place? Who will lament for you here? If you<br />

were dead in the city, the relatives, fathers and mothers, subjects and all from the two<br />

cities, Jetuttara and MaddarAj, would mourn and lament for you. <strong>The</strong>y would make a<br />

golden coffin for you with different kinds of precious jewel. I would ask people from<br />

the two countries to build a big pavilion as a state funeral with decoration pictures such<br />

as deer, various kinds of birds, dragons, horses and elephants, tigers and lion, group of<br />

young men and women, beautiful clear sky, creepers, white lotuses. With a big pile of<br />

red sandalwood, at the door of colourful pavilion, I would draw pictures of divine<br />

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