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But each child separately and all of them together the mother urged on to death for religion's sake.
13
O sacred nature and affection of parental love, yearning of parents toward offspring, nurture and indomitable suffering by mothers!
14
This mother, who saw them tortured and burned one by one, because of religion did not change her attitude.
15
She watched the flesh of her children being consumed by fire, their toes and fingers scattered on the ground, and the flesh of the head to the chin exposed like masks.
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O mother, tried now by more bitter pains than even the birth pangs you suffered for them!
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