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out hurting it in the least it should be placed before the goddess Candikā and if the deity announced that she is pleased they should all run away from there without turning back. They all agreed and by the time they brought the child to the temple, I hid myself inside the temple and announced in the voice of the deity the acceptance of the offering with pleasure. They then went away from there and I have brought the child to you."
discassion as to how best they could make andffering of it to the Goddess. I then told them that I left my child at the foot of a tree and went out to find the pathway, but on my return, the child was missing, and asked them if they had any news of it. They then showed me the child in their possession and permitted me to take it away if it was 'mine. I thas saved the child and brought it to you."
The king gladly accepted the child and named it Upaharavarman. p. 174.
The king received the child and named it Upahāravarman. p. 14–16.
9. Once an ascetic by name Somadevagarman pla- ced a child before the king and told him as follows:-
An ascetic by name Somadevašarman placed a child before the king and told him as follows :
"As I was returning from Rāmatirtha, I saw a Siva Temple in a forest near Kalinga. After gatb-
" While returning from Rāmatirtha I saw a woman with a baby. When I asked her how she happened to
