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Nami ruled for a long time with impartial justice and made his people happy. Once he had high fever raging in his body and all the women in his palace started making sandal-wood paste. Each one had many bracelets on her hands and the noise that ensured as they made the paste annoyed the king. It was accordingly ordered that the noise should be stopped and it was stopped. The king wondered how it had happened and he was told that now every woman wore only one bracelet on her wrist and removed the others. At this the king suddenly felt enlightened; much always meant trouble and not pleasure. Harm is in the many, not in the solitary
man.
After he recovered from his illness he decided to renounce the world. One night, he saw a happy dream in which he was riding a royally decorated elephant in the heaven, this was an auspicious sign. He also heard sweet music and he saw the Mandara mountain. The dream gladdened the heart of the king. He felt that his desire to renounce the world had received heavenly approval and accordingly he did renounce it to become a wandering monk.
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