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भिक्षुताडितश्वानन्यायः (bhikSutADitazvAnanyAyaH)

 
लौकिकन्यायः
English
This maxim alludes to the noble nature of a dog. Once a dog approached Rāma and complained that a beggar had beaten it severely. The king summoned the beggar who pleaded that the dog always followed him wherever he went. Because of the fear of the barking dog, no body came near him to give alms. So he beat it. The dog, in return pleaded that it was a worshipper in a temple, in its earlier birth. It used to eat the food prepared for the deity and Brāhmaṇas. He accepted the punishment and requested the king to appoint the beggar as a worshipper of the temple. Then the dog went to Kāśī and died there. It had the sacred Darśana of Sri Rāma and reached the ultimate goal-i.e. Mokṣa.