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112
Kummāputtachariam
That King had the principal queen named Drumā who was to him as Uma to God Śankara, or Ramā to Vasudeva. (11)
They had a son named Durlabha, very delicate, surpassing Cupid by his lovely appearance, a mine of virtues and a support of many people. (12)
That son, by the foolish pride of his royal birth and youth, used always to enjoy himself by tossing up like balls in the sky a number of other princes. (13)
One day there came to his garden named Durgila, one Kevali preacher named Sulochana. (14)
In that garden there always stayed a female Yaksha by name Bhadramukhi, having her residence in an underground palace underneath a Banian tree famous by the name Bahusāla. (15)
Having saluted with ardent devotion the great preacher Sulochana, endowed with the lotus of Kevala Knowledge and capable of removing doubts, she put to him the following question:- (16)
Divine Sir, in my previous existence, I was a woman by name Mānavatī, an object of enjoyment to the Velandhara God Suvela who loved me as his life. (17)
At the expiry of that life of mine, I became a Yaksha female named Bhadramukhi in this grove. Kindly, tell me, Divine Lord, where and in what condition my husband is born. (18)
Then the omniscient sage named Sulochana says with a sweet voice "hear me, good lady, your beloved husband is born
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