________________ 34 Siri Sirivalakaba there. Once Chandrapradyota happened to see these two beautiful harlots, and fell in love with them, and was smitten with great pangs of love. After great entreaty and requests: through his maid-servant, the harlots agreed. that the king should come to their place after seven days at a particular time when their brother would be absent, because he did not allow them to leave their place. . In the meanwhile, Abhayakumara found out a man having the same shape as that of Chandrapradyota; called him by the name * Pradyota', and made him known in the city as his mad brother, and he told: alli the people that he was much worried about his brother and he did not know where to take him and what medicine to give him etc. and sometimes he used to place him on a cot and tio him tightly and take him on the royal road publicly, even though he gave loud cries, and that man also, as taught by Abhayakumara, used to cry out "Oh, people ! please listen to my one sentence, I am king Pradyota, he is carrying me away, get me released from him etc." Hearing this the people used to come to him, but recogniz-. ing him not to be Chandrapradyota they used to laugh among themselves. Abhayakumara did
