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The Story of Brahmadatta Chakri
- We have brought here the verse 27 of the second chapter of the Yogashastra. The minister of the bow managed to escape from there secretly. After his departure, your mother has been placed in a house in the neighborhood of the Chandala, who are like hell. Just as one pain follows another after a fever, similarly, on hearing this, my mind was filled with sorrow upon sorrow, and I, being distressed, went from there towards Kausambi. I disguised myself as a fake Kapaalika ascetic and entered the Chandala neighborhood. There, like a rabbit, I started searching for my mother by entering house to house. When the people asked me the reason for roaming in that neighborhood every day, I said - 'My Maatangi Vidya sadhana is such that I have to enter house to house in this way.' While wandering in this way, I became friends with a reliable police officer there. 'What work cannot be done by Maya?' One day, through that trusted police officer, I had my mother called and told her that 'Your son's friend, the great vrati Kundindya tapasvi, pays his respects to you.' My mother understood. The eager mother asked me to meet her to see her son. So, the next day I went there myself and gave my mother a betel-nut packet; as soon as she ate it, she became unconscious like a log. Seeing her in such a condition, the police officer told the king, 'Lord! The wife of the treasurer has died.' Hearing this, I also reached there immediately. I told the servants who had come to perform the cremation, 'Brothers! If you cremate her at this time, it will be a great misfortune for your king.' Hearing this, the royal servants left her there as she was. Then I told the police officer, 'If you help, I can accomplish a mantra with this all-characteristic word.' The police officer agreed to my request. I also took the mother away from the cremation ground at dusk. There, in a deceptive manner, I wrote a circular yantra and sent the police officer to offer it to the goddesses of the city. While he went there, I gave the mother another betel-nut; with which she regained consciousness and got up, as if waking up from sleep. I introduced myself to her. Hearing this, she started hiccupping. I comforted her and stopped her from crying. Then I took her to Kaccha village and left her with my father's friend Devasharmaa. After leaving her there, I have been wandering here and there to find you. By my good fortune, I have now had your darshan, which is like a heap of merit. Swamin! Now tell me, where did you go and where did you stay after being separated from me? And what happened where? The prince also narrated his Rama story.
From there, the two were walking together when someone came and said in a low voice, 'The soldiers of King Dirgharaja are roaming around the village, showing a picture (hooliya) of a person with a similar appearance as you, and asking if anyone has seen two such people.' Hearing their words, I have come to inform you both. Now do as you deem appropriate. Saying this, he left. Hearing this, the two companions fled into the forest like baby elephants and reached Kaushambi in a day. There, outside the city, in the garden, they saw Sagardatta and Buddhil making roosters fight for a bet of one lakh rupees. The roosters were fighting each other with their claws and beaks, like deadly weapons. In the fight, the strong rooster of superior breed, like Bhadrahasti, was defeated by the cunning rooster of Buddhil, like a medium-sized elephant. Seeing this, Vardhanu said, 'Sagar! Why did your superior breed rooster lose? If you want to know the reason, I will find it out.' With Sagar's consent, Vardhanu closely examined Buddhil's rooster and found a needle-like iron object stuck in its leg. Buddhil also realized that Vardhanu had discovered his deception; so he secretly offered 50,000 rupees in Vardhanu's ear. Vardhanu also told this matter in private to Brahmakumar. Brahmadatta secretly removed the iron needle stuck in the leg of Buddhil's rooster and made it fight again with Sagardatta's rooster. With the removal of the needle, Buddhil's rooster lost the battle in a short time. 'How can the victory of a deceitful person be possible?' Pleased with this, Sagardatta took the two princes in his chariot to his house. There, the two princes were warmly welcomed.