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ander which I had placed the flowers. The child fell down from the tree into my flower basket. I then took the child to the old nurse who brought it there, bat she was lying there unconscious. My search for its mother did not prove Buccessful. So I brought it here."' p. 192.
10. Once a Brahmin by Dame Kirtideva came with a boy from the hermitage of Vămadeya and stated as follows:
Adieci ple ci Vámadeva laid a child before the king and told him as follows :
"In the ccurse of my pilgrimage to Kanyakumari I came to the banks of the river Kaveri and on hearios that a Brahmin by name Satyasarman chlätaliputra was livire there, went to see him. On my return I saw a woman attempting to commit suicide. On asking her the cause of her action she narrated as follows:
"In the course of my pilgrimage, I came to the banks of Kāveri. I saw there a wailing woman with a child in her lap. On my asking her the cause of her wailing and the circomstances that brooght her to the foresi, she replied as follows :
Satyavarman, the young. er son of Sitavarman the minister of Räjahamsa, came here on a pilgrimage
