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filled with jaw-teeth will turn into rice pudding. That man will eat it up and kill you.
Listening to the astrologer's prediction Para ur ma made an asylum. He has placed a high seat in one of the raised platforms therein, close to which he has kept the jaw-teeth-filled plate. To protect that throne he has placed many soldiers." Hearing about Para ur ma's account from his mother, Subh ma at once started for that place. Killing all the soldiers there he sat on the throne. Seated on the throne the moment he rested his eyes upon the teeth-filled plate, by an unseen power it became a plate filled with rice pudding. Subh ma started eating that pudding. The injured soldiers gave this news to Para ur ma.
Hearing the entire account from the soldiers Para ur ma was reminded of the astrologer's prediction. At once he reached the asylum. There he saw the boy Subh ma eating rice pudding fearlessly and uninhibitedly. He told Subh ma firmly, 'O Brahmin child, who are you and upon whose instructions are you sitting on the throne? Don't you know that plate contains teeth of the K atriyas killed by me, which you are eating with such relish? If you are so hungry there is arrangement for the best food in my asylum, which you can fill you stomach with.' Subh ma fearlessly kept listening to Para ur ma and eating the rice pudding simultaneously. When Para ur ma had finished speaking he said, 'I am sitting on this throne not instructed by anyone but on account of my own bravery. I know this plate contained human jaw-teeth, but I am eating rice pudding that it got converted into by an unseen power and I may look like an ascetic Brahmin but I am not, in fact, a Brahmin. I am a K atriya's son and have come to kill you. My arms are twitching to be free of my father's debt. So stop talking and pick up your weapons and show your valour. I am the son of K rtav rya Sahasr rjuna. You have got rid of K atriyas seven times on this earth and I shall make this earth free of Brahmins 21 times only then will my anger cool down.'
Hearing this battle-cry of Subh ma Para ur ma's whole body began to tremble. He at once released a strong of arrows from his bow at Subh ma but the thick and firm body of Subh ma rendered all of the arrows useless. Seeing this Para ur ma became shocked and bewildered. Keeping his bow and arrow aside he picked up his battle axe but seeing even the battle axe ineffective he was very disappointed. After
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