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[0 Bhava. on an expodition together with his wife. They arrived at Vaijayanti on the eastern coast, but making little profit there Dharana took a ship bound for China. After a few days' sail. ing a stofm broke out and shattered the ship. Dharana clung to a plank and drifted in a day to Suvarnadvipa. He went on shore and kindled a fire to protect him from the cold of the night. In the morning he found the ground, where the fire had been, changed into gold, whence he inferred that the soil consigted of gold-ore. He, therefore, formed bricks of the clay, signed them with his name, folded them up, and by burning them in a fire changed them into gold. After having, in this way, prepared 10000 ingots of gold, he put up a flag as sign of shipwreck. 444, 15. The flag was sighted by a merchant named Suvadana, who was sailing from China to Devapura, and had on board Lakşmi whom he had picked up at some island where she had been stranded. He sent his sailors to fetch the shipwrecked man and met him on shore. Dharana asked him about the cargo of the ship, and when he learnt that his goods were of small value, he persuaded him to land them and take the gold-ingots on board promising to payohim a lakh on reaching the coast. Going on board he rejoiced at meeting his wife. 446, 4. They had sailed but five Yojanas, when a female demon, the ruler of Suvernadvipa, appeared in the air. She cried that all the gold on board was her property; if they did not deliver it or sacrifice to her one man, she would kill them all. Dharana offered himself as a victim and leapt overboard. She pierced him with her trident and carried him off to Suvarnadvipo.
In the mean time Hemakuņdala had succoured Śrivijaya and was now on his way from Suvela to Ratnadvipa. Seeing Dharana in the clutches of the female demon, with whom he was aoquainted, he released him and healed his wounds. He then went with him to Ratnadvipa. 448, 13. Taking a rest there in a mango groye, Dharana told his friend his adventures and implored him to reunite him with Lakşmi. Hemakundala promised to bring him to Dovapura; but he must first visit his
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| SR No. | 010741 |
| Book Title | Samraicca Kaha Vol 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Jacobi |
| Publisher | Asiatic Society |
| Publication Year | 1926 |
| Total Pages | 938 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 33 MB |