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get Kattiyangāran to his place by a stratagem. This Govindarāja had a beautiful daughter named Ilakkaņai. He proclaimed the conditions of a svayamvara and set up a machine in the form of a boar which was always rotating; he who successfully hit the rotating boar would be accepted as the fitting husband to the princess. Kațțiyangāran and several other princes were assembled at the court of Govindarāja in order to try their luck at the svayamvara. But none was really successful. At last Jivaka appeared on the scene on the back of an elephant. The very sight made Kaţtiyangāran frightened. Jivaka, whom he considered to be dead and gone, was before him fully alive. He got down from the elephant's back and hit at the boar-mark successfully with his arrow, and won the hand of the princess in the svayamvara. Then his uncle Govindarāja openly announced who this young man was and sent an ultimatum to Kattiyangāraṇ to return back his kingdom. But Kațțiyangāran accepted the challenge and preferred to sight. He was defeated and killed in a regular battle together with his hundred sons. Jivaka was victorious. At the news of the victory, his old mother was in great joy and felt that her life-purpose was fulfilled.
11. Pumagal-ilambakam--Then Jivaka, after the victory, marched to his own city Rājamāpuram where he had the coronation ceremony conducted in a grand manner to the delight of his friends and relations. This is spoken of as the marriage with the Bhūmidēvī, the Spirit of the earth, because Jivaka's previous career was one of a glorious stream of marriages.
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