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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
I couldn't sleep. Seeing my condition, a friend gave ine this advice, "we are not faraway from the Capital. Quietly you go home on a speedy horse; meet Anjana and come back before dawn. No one will come to know of this and you too will be happy. When you are free from this agony of yours, you will be able to fight with greater enthusiasm and victory will be easy for you." According to this suggestion of my friend. I came and met Anjana. I also gave her my ring as a proof of my visit. Hence, no one need suspect her character." Mother said, "Yes, really she showed a ring bearing your name as a proof of her chastity, but, I thought that she had got the ring made to safe-guard her honour. When all of us lost faith in her chastity, she went away in disgrace. Sometime later we learnt that she had gone to her father's home but her parents also turned her away from their home. Now, her whereabouts are not known."
Kumar said, "Mother, wherever she may be, I will search for her. I take an oath now and here that I will not return home until I find her."
Pavanajaya Kumar set off in search of Anjana. First of all, he went to the town where his father-inlaw lived. He asked all the people in that area for the whereabouts of Anjana. They informed her that one year before, Anjana who was pregnant had gone away alone from there. He requested them to remember
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