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2. te of our edition makes capital reading. Jacobi's site makes no sense. But he says in the footnote that the letters could be read as 8.
IX The prince submissively says that everything now belongs to Bhavisa and that he should take care of those lands, whose kings he had conquered. Bhavisa, however, pays them proper honour and lets them go to their countries.
X Thus Bhavisa, a bania's son, becomes king and makes all other kings submissive. He thus has all he could covet; his wife too shows signs of coming motherhood.
5. गुरुहार is गुरुभार. गुरुहार is only a popular etymology of the Sk. word Thant). XI The young queen, Bhavisa's wife, expresses a desire to go to the
nple in Tilakadvīpa. While the king is anxious how to fulfil it, some semi-divine person appears at the door for an audience of him.
XII The newcomer tells the king that he was a Vidyadhara named Mañaveya, and that he had been commanded by his master to go to Gayaura and try to fulfil the desire of Bhavisāņuruvā.
XIII The king however asks him why he had been so kind to him. The latter says that there was something from a former birth, which made him do so.
1. Read Tulfa and gatela. Metre requires it.
XIV He has been sent by the Muni, to take them to Tilakadivpa and he would do so by means of his baloon. Bhavisa agrees and lets his people know accordingly.
1. Perego is evidently a mistake for ne facto 5. Read वम्महवारणकेसरि.
7. Gafafe agaja sitte-This is an obscure line. What is arnia ? Jacobi guesses that af might be an instrument. The guess is based on the previous half of the line, which refers to ty; and the word aafafe in this half. Then what is attrifu? Pischel gives starten as its equivalent, but this stufey is not used in that sense here; it is common to Ardhamăgadhi literature. In our book stofsy occurs in the following passages.
(1) fagt gert stufes of famagit VII 11, 10. (2) gf 75 gra ggr tifoss 48 XV 12, 12.
(3) The present passage.
In (1), the sense of making a loud sound, rasing a cry,' seems to be clear. But it does not suit (2). In our passage it does.
XV. There is a commotion in the city when the news spread all round. The people gatheres at the city gates to see the spectacle.
XVI. The young King rides an elephant, with his two wives and followed by the old king, Dhaṇavai and others, goes to the Jina temple first and out of the city afterwards.
