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under the dust and so it has remained ever since.
Udayana's son Abhijit, however never stopped fretting over his loss of the throne; he would not ever forgive his father's choice of Kesi, overlooking his own claim. He left Vitabhaya and sought refuge with one of the kings in Campa. Though he became a lay disciple and practised all the fasts and penances, he had no kindly thought for his father. Even when he died he did not forgive him nor did he regret his own attitude. After his death he was born as a demon prince. He was condemned to remain so till a blade of grass empties a large lake by taking away a single drop of its water once every hundred years. His final emancipation would thus be after several hundred years.
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