Vulgar words in The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 - Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 (Page 1)
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In this connection is cited an old history, O Yudhishthira, of a conversation between Matanga and a she-ass.
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Having received the command of his father, he set out for the purpose, riding on a car of great speed, drawn by an ass.
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Instead therefore, of obeying the reins, the animal bore away the car to the vicinity of its dam, viz., the she-ass that had brought it forth.
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Beholding those marks of violence on her child's nose, the she-ass, full of affection for him, said--Do not grieve, O child, for his treatment.
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Hearing these harsh words of the she-ass, Matanga quickly, came down from the car and addressing the she-ass, said,--Tell me, O blessed dame, by what fault is my mother stained?
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"The she-ass said, Begotten thou wert, upon a Brahmana woman excited with desire, by a Sudra following the profession of a barber.
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"Brahmana continued, 'Thus addressed by the she-ass, Matanga retraced his way homewards.
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O father, this she-ass, who seems to be more than a human being, tells me that I have been begotten upon a Brahmani woman by a Sudra.
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Whore, again, is the son to be?
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[404] He that is full of guile, or he that is guilty of foeticide, or he that is ill of consumption, or he that keeps animals, of is destitute of Vedic study, or is a common servant of a village, or lives upon the interest of loans, or he that is a singer, or he that sells all articles, or he that is guilty of arson, or he that is a poisoner or he that is a pimp by profession, or he that sells Soma, or he that is a professor of palmistry, or he that is in the employ of the king, or he that is seller of oil, or he that is a cheat and false swearer, or he that has a quarrel with his father, or he that tolerates a paramour of his wife in his house, or he that has been cursed, or he that is a thief, or he that lives by some mechanical art, or he that puts on disguises, or he that is deceitful in his behaviour, or he that is hostile to those he calls his friends, or he that is an adulterer, or he that is a preceptor of Sudras, or he that has betaken himself to the profession of arms, or he that wanders with dogs (for hunting), or he that has been bit by a dog, or he that has wedded before his elder brothers, or he that seems to have undergone circumcision,[405] he that violates the bed of his preceptor, he that is an actor or mime, he that lives by setting up a deity and he that lives by calculating the conjunctions of stars and planets and asterisms[406], are regarded as fit to be excluded from the line.
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One should not answer a call of nature on a field (where crops are grown) or at a place too near an inhabited village.
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One should never answer a call of nature on a water.
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One should never answer a call of nature in a standing posture.
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One should never answer a call of nature on ashes or in a cow-pen.
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They who answer a call of nature, with face towards the sun, or towards a blazing fire, or towards a cow, or towards a regenerate person, or on the road, become shortlived.
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One should always answer a call of nature at a spot far removed from one's habitation.
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He has to live as an ass for five and ten years.
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Freed from the status of a worm, be next takes birth as an ass.
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As an ass he has to live for five years, and then a hog, in which state also he has to remain for as many years.
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He has then to become a beast of prey, and then an ass.
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That son with whom his parents become angry, has, in consequence of his evil thoughts towards them, to take birth as an ass.
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As an ass he has to live for ten months.
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[516] That wretch who himself well armed, slays another while that other is unarmed, from motives of obtaining his victim's wealth or from feelings of hostility, has, after casting off his human body, to take birth as an ass.