22. 'May he come into captivity from the lovely forest into the company of men, fettered with six hundred solid chains[148], and suffer pain from the sharp goads of his driver, he who took thy lotus-stalks, O most excellent of Munis!' [148] I suppose the author of the Sanskrit original did not understand the meaning of the text he Sanskritised. The corresponding stanza of the Pâli redaction has so ba_gg_hatû pâsasatehî _kh_ambhî, where _kh_ambhî is explained in the commentary as signifying the six parts of the elephant's body fastened by many chains (pâsasatehîti bahûhi pâsehi), viz. the four feet, the neck, and the loins. The monkey said: 23. 'May he who moved by greediness took thy lotus-stalks wear a flower-garland and a tin collar rubbing his neck, and beaten with a stick pass before the face of a serpent[149], and with a long wreath hanging from his shoulder, live in the houses (of men)!' [149] In other words, may he be the monkey of a serpent-charmer. In reply, the Bodhisattva addressed all of them with words both persuasive and kind, indicating how deep-rooted was his dispassionateness. 24. 'May he who falsely said "they have disappeared," though he had them, obtain to his heart's desire worldly pleasures and die a householder. May the same be the fate of him who suspects you of a similar action!' Those extraordinary protestations of them, indicative of their abhorrence of the enjoyment of worldly pleasures, roused the astonishment and respect of _S_akra, the Lord of the Devas. He made himself visible in his own brilliant shape, and drawing near to those _Ri_shis, said as if with resentment: 'You ought not to speak so. 25. 'Those enjoyments--to obtain which everybody who longs for happiness strives after to such a degree as to banish sleep from his eyes and to undertake any form of penance and toil--you censure, calling them "worldly pleasures!" Why do you judge so?' The Bodhisattva spoke: 'Sensual enjoyments are accompanied by endless sins, sir. Why, hear then, I will tell thee concisely, what the Munis have in view that makes them blame sensual enjoyments. 26. 'On account of them, men incur captivity and death, grief, fatigue, danger, in short manifold sufferings. For the sake of them, kings are eager to oppress righteousness, and consequently fall into hell after death. 27. 'When the ties of friendship are suddenly loosened, when men enter the road of political wisdom, that unclean path of falseness, when they lose their good reputation and hereafter come to meet with sufferings--is it not sensual enjoyments that are the cause thereof? 28. 'Now, since worldly pleasures in this manner tend to the destruction of all conditions of men, the highest, the middle and the lowest, both in this world and in the next, the Munis, O _S_akra, who long only for the Self, keep aloof from them, as they would from angry serpents.'