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Bharata and the Deer
Chapter 5
Book Two: The Shape of the World

Bharata and the Deer

भरतोपाख्यान

The royal sage Bharata renounces his throne but grows so attached to an orphaned fawn that he is reborn as a deer, and then as a seemingly dull brahmin, teaching that even a single lingering attachment can bind the soul.
Invoking the sacred fire...