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every morning without the queen and the people and return to his capital unnoticed when his morning ablutions were over. Once the queen happened to notice that the King was missing. She sent for her Jaina gurus who were proficient in Jyoutishäm and asked them about his whereabouts. The Jaina gurus told the queen the truth of the matter. On the King's return she confronted him with the story of his “escapade ” and only requested him to take her also to Benares for her own niorning ablutions. The King came to know that the queen had the truth of the matter calculated by the Jainas and consented reluctantly to grant her wish. Later on, when once the King was in Benares with the queen, she happened to be in her“ period ” and the King found great difficulty in coming back to his capital. Henceforward the sandals lost their charm, the King felt mortified and took vengeance on the Jainas by persecuting them.
The worsting of the Jainas by Ganapati Dēva of Warrangal when they were defeated in disputation with Tikkana (the minister of Manumasiddhi of Nellcre), the author of the Telugu Mahābhāratam, is niore famous and the following extract from a mànuscript poem in the Oriental Manuscripts Library of the Madras Museum has a clear reference to it :
" అనుమకొండ నివాసులైనట్టి బౌద్ధ జనులరావించివారిందిక్కనమనీషి ,
