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Chandrapradyot was entrusted to Abhaykumar.
Thinking, 'By any means, he should be killed now,' they gave him laddoos mixed with poison in his food on the way.
And they took away all the other things like food (pathya) etc. from him.
Lohjang, after traveling a long distance, sat down to eat by a river.
But knowing that it was an inauspicious time, he went ahead without eating.
Being hungry, he stopped again to eat; the omen told him not to eat this time either.
He went straight to King Chandrapradyot without eating.
And he told him all that had happened.
Chandrapradyot called Abhaykumar and asked him what to do.
The intelligent Abhaykumar sniffed the food kept in the bag and said, 'This contains a poison snake that is born from the combination of such and such substances.
If this leather bag is opened, it will surely burn and be reduced to ashes.'
As per Abhaykumar's instructions, the king sent a servant to throw the bag upside down in the forest and leave it there.
As a result, the trees there were burnt to ashes and the snake also died.
Pleased with Abhaykumar's intelligence, Chandrapradyot said to him, 'Ask for any boon except release from bondage.'
Abhaykumar said, 'Let my boon remain in your custody for now.'
One day, Chandrapradyot's elephant, Nalgiri, uprooted the pillar to which it was tied and threw two mahouts to the ground.
Then, intoxicated, it roamed freely in the city, surprising the city dwellers.
The king asked Abhaykumar, 'How can the wild elephant be tamed?'
Abhaykumar suggested that if King Udayan played music, the elephant could be tamed.
Udayan, who was imprisoned to teach his daughter Vasavadatta the Gandharva Vidya, sang there with Vasavadatta.
Nalgiri, the elephant, was attracted by the music and stopped to listen, when he was tied with strong chains.
The king was again pleased and asked Abhaykumar to ask for a boon.
He also kept it in trust with Abhaykumar.
Once, a fire broke out in Avanti, which could not be extinguished.
King Chandrapradyot again panicked and asked Abhaykumar for a way to extinguish the fire.
Abhaykumar said, 'Poison kills poison, similarly fire extinguishes fire.
Therefore, you light another fire in front of that fire, so that it will extinguish itself.'
This was done.
As a result, the raging fire was extinguished.
Now what, the king asked Abhaykumar to ask for a third boon.
He also kept it in trust.
Once, there was an epidemic in Ujjayini.
People started dying one after another.
The king asked Abhaykumar for a remedy to pacify the epidemic, and he said, 'All the queens should come to you in the inner palace adorned with ornaments, and the queen who wins you over with her sight, you should tell me.
Then I will tell you what to do next.'
The king did the same.
In the battle of sight, all the queens lost, but Shivadevi won over the king.
He called Abhaykumar and told him the whole story.
He said, 'Shivadevi should worship the ghosts with cruel offerings at night.
Whatever ghosts rise in the form of jackals and make a sound, the goddess should put the cruel offering in their mouths herself.'
Shivadevi did the same, as a result, the epidemic subsided.
Pleased with this, the king gave Abhaykumar a fourth boon.
At that time, Abhaykumar asked, 'You should be sitting on the elephant Nalgiri as a mahout, and I should be sitting in Shivadevi's lap, and in this very state, I should enter the pyre made of wood of the Agnibhīru chariot.'
Unable to give this boon, King Chandrapradyot sadly folded his hands and gave permission to Shrenikputra Abhaykumar to go to his city.
Abhaykumar also promised while leaving, 'You have deceitfully caught me and brought me here, but I will take you out of the city shouting loudly in broad daylight.'
From there, Abhaykumar reached Rajgriha.
And the intelligent Abhay spent some time peacefully in Rajgriha.
One day, Abhaykumar, dressed as a merchant, arrived in Avanti with two beautiful courtesan daughters.
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