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1 SIDDHASENA DIVAKARA
and money. The king achieved success and highly respected Divākara.
3. Divakara fell a prey to the temptations of receiving royal favours and had to be brought to his senses by the advice of his preceptor, Vṛddhavādi.
All these six incidents have a slight difference with the account as found in the Prabhavaka Carita. But this verse composition is somewhat fragmentary owing to some of its pages being lost at various places. The King who was helped with men and money by Siddhasena is not, therefore, found mentioned by his name in it, and the place where Siddhasena died is also found not mentioned.
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Caturviṁsati Prabandha being mainly based on Prabhavaka Carita completely tallies in most of its points with it. There are, however, two points found therein which are not found in the original (i.e. Prabhā vaka Carita). The first is the account of the origin of Mahākāla temple as given by Divakara to the King Vikrama and secondly, in the town of Omkara, Divakara made King Vikrama erect a Jaina temple as a rival to the Śiva temple
there.
Now let us examine the fifth work. This work dealing with the life of Siddhasena is written on account of the incidental reference to Siddhasena in Vikramarka Prabandha which in its turn forms a chapter of the Prabandha Cintamaņi. In this short work the account of Siddhasena and Vṛddhavadi materially differs in some important points with the accounts that we get from the
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