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॥ चिंतापदेशः ॥ रक्ष তণ্ডুলকণার লেভেঙে আমার ও প্রায় তেমনি হইবে যেমন কঙ্কগুলোভেতে দুস্তর পক্ষেতেমগ্ন যে পথিক সে বৃদ্ধ ব্যাধু কর্তৃক প্রাপ্ত হইয়া মরিয়াছে কপোহেরা কহিল এ কি প্রকার কপোতরাজ কহিল । Yet, it is said, that men of the world must absolutely ast according to these lines : Every time we rise, great fear is to be apprehended : for, to-day, of death, sickness, and sorrow, who knoweth which may fall upon us ; The fowler, having first strewed some rice upon the ground, spread his nets; and whilst this was transacting, it happetted that Chitra-griva, the chief of a flock of Pigeons, was in the air flying about with his attendants. He saw the grains of lice upon the groud: and perceiving that his flock shewed an inclination to partake of them, he addressed them thus:-Beware, my friends Whence, think you, should rice be produced in a place like this, void of inhabitants; Let this, therefore, be 'investigated ; for 1 conceive no good can come of it, lest we should experience a fate similar to what is men...tioned in the following lines : A Traveller, through lust of gold, being plunged into an inextricable mire, is killed and devoured by an old Tiger. How did this happen ; demanded the pigeons, and their chief related as follows :