Hitopdesh • Chapter 2 • Shloka 160
तावाहतुः -- कथमेतत् । मन्थरः कथयति ।
॥ कथा ६ ॥
आसीत् कल्याणकटकवास्तव्यो भैरवो नाम व्याधः । स चैकदा मृगमन्विष्यन् विन्ध्याटवीम्
गतः । तेन तत्र व्यापादितं मृगमादाय गच्छता घोराकृतिः शूकरो दृष्टः ।
ततस्तेन मृगं भूमौ निधाय शूकरः शरेणाहतः ।
शूकरेणापि घनघोरगर्जनं कृत्वा
स व्याधो मुष्कदेशे हतः संश्छिन्नद्रुम इव भूमौ निपपात । यतः ।
जलमग्निर्विषं शस्तेअं क्षुद् व्याधिः पतनं गिरेः ।
निमित्तं किंचिद् आसाद्य देही प्राणैर्विमुच्यते ॥
The two asked how that was. Manthara related - There was a hunter, Bhairava by name, residing in the province of Kalyana. He, one day, went to the Vindhya Forest in search of a deer. As he passed carrying the deer that he had killed, he saw a boar of a formidable form. Then the hunter placed the deer on the ground and wounded the boar with an arrow. The boar too, having set up a deep and dreadful cry (or a cry as terrible as the thunder of clouds) struck the hunter in the groin, upon which he fell down like a tree struck down. For, having met with some cause, such as water, fire, poison, a weapon, hunger (starvation), a disease, or a fall from a mountain, a creature loses his life.
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