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Parva continued)
Sauti said, 'And Ruru, on hearing those words, replied,
'My wife, dear to me as life, was bit by a snake; upon which, I took, O snake,
a dreadful vow, viz., that I would kill every snake that I might come across.
Therefore shall I smite thee and thou shalt be deprived of life.'
"And the Dundubha replied, 'O Brahmana, the snakes
that bite man are quite different in type. It behoveth thee not to slay
Dundubhas who are serpents only in name. Subject like other serpents to the
same calamities but not sharing their good fortune, in woe the same but in joy
different, the Dundubhas should not be slain by thee under any misconception.'
"Sauti continued, 'And the Rishi Ruru hearing these
words of the serpent, and seeing that it was bewildered with fear, albeit a snake
of the Dundubha species, killed it not. And Ruru, the possessor of the six
attributes, comforting the snake addressed it, saying, 'Tell me fully, O snake,
who art thou thus metamorphosed?' And the Dundubha replied, 'O Ruru! I was
formerly a Rishi by name Sahasrapat. And it is by the curse of a Brahmana that
I have been transformed into a snake. And Ruru asked, 'O thou best of snakes,
for what wast thou cursed by a Brahmana in wrath? And how long also will thy
form continue so?'"
And so ends the tenth section of the Pauloma Parva of the
Adi Parva.
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