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Vivāgasuyam. they fell at his feet, folded their hands and requested him about that matter. Then that king Mahabbala, having heard and listened to this news from those people of the country, became angry (here the rest to be supplied, down to ) burning with rage and having contracted his eye-brows in threz folds on his forehead sent for the commander of the army and having done so spoke to him thus: “Oh, you, beloved of the gods ! go and at once raid Sālā, the forest-settlement of thieves, and capture Abhaggasena, the leader of thieves, alive and bring him to me." Then that commander of the army responded to this, saying: “ As your lordship commands." Then that commander of the army being surrounded by many persons who had their loins girt up (here the rest to be supplied § 9, down to) with missiles, and producing a great roaring noise :( here the rest to be supplied, down to) resembling the rvaring of an ocean with the beating of a trumpet blown quickly with shields fastened on hands (here the rest to be supplied $18), went through the midst of the city of Purimatāla and having done so proceeded to go to the place where Sālā, the forest-settlement of thieves, was situated. Then the spies of that Abhaggasena, the leader of thieves, getting the intelligence about this went to where Sala, the forest-settlement of thieves, was and to where Abhaggasena, the leader of thieves, was and having done so and having folded their hands ( as above, down to ) and spoke thus:
