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The royal ministers were worried, shocked, and distressed when they learned of the king’s intention to give away his eyes and said to him:

“Your extreme joy in giving makes you

unable to see it is wrong and damaging.*

Please, Your Majesty, don’t do this.

You should not give away your sight.

Do not cast all of us aside

for the sake of one brahmin!

Do not raise your people to be happy,

only to let them burn with sorrow’s fire.

Offer fortune-bringing wealth,

glorious jewels, milk-giving cows,

chariots yoked with trained horses,

or fine, graceful elephants, proud in rut.

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Give houses pleasant in every season,

echoing with the sound of tinkling anklets,

brighter than autumn clouds.

But don’t give away your sight, you the world’s

sole eye.

Your Majesty should also consider this:

How can one person’s eye

be used by another?

If through divine intervention,

why is your eye needed?