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## Chapter Thirty-Three
**407**
Hearing this, Kansa, filled with doubt, quickly went to Vasudeva, the truthful one, who was in the forest, and bowed at his feet.
**38**
"O Master! Your blessings are surely to be given to me. I wish that Devaki should reside in my house at the time of her delivery."
**39**
Vasudeva, unaware of the truth, granted him the boon, being foolish. How could one suspect that harm could come to a sister in her brother's house?
**40**
Later, when he learned the truth, he was filled with remorse. He went to the liberated Muni, Ati-Muktaka, who resided in the mango grove, and bowed to him along with Devaki. After receiving his blessings, he asked the question that was in his mind.
**41-42**
"O Lord! What did Kansa do in a previous birth that made him so wicked, a foe to his own father? And how will my son be the destroyer of this wicked Kansa? I wish to know, please tell me."
**43**
The Muni Ati-Muktaka, with eyes that shone with divine knowledge, replied, for the words of those who possess divine vision destroy all doubts.
**44**
"O beloved of the gods, O King! Listen, your question is dear to all. I will tell you what you seek to know, according to your question."
**45**
"In this very city of Mathura, when King Ugrasena ruled, there lived a sage named Vasishtha, who had performed the five-fire penance.
**46**
He was an ignorant sage, standing on one leg, with raised arms and long matted hair, performing austerities on the banks of the Yamuna."
**47**
"There, women came to draw water. One day, a water-carrier named Priyangulatika, the beloved of Jina-das Seth, also came there. Other water-carriers, who were wise, said to Priyangulatika, "O Priyangulatika!