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Wandering and a boat ride
After redeeming Ca dakau ika, wandering, the Lord reached V cl. There he broke his fifteen-days' fast by accepting rice pudding from N gasena. Leaving from there, he reached vet mbik city, where the king Prade gave him a respectful welcome and honours. Leaving
vet mbik city, the Lord moved towards Surabhipura. River Gamg came mid-way. The Lord had to sit on a boat to cross Gamg. The moment the boat moved, an owl sitting on the right side, hooted. Hearing the owl's hoot the soothsayer Khemila, sitting in the boat, said – “A great trouble is expected, but on account of the strong good deeds of this Lord nothing untoward will happen.” After going a little further, the boat got stuck in a whirlpool due to a strong windstorm. The passengers were worried, but the Lord sat fearlessly and unmoved, in meditation. The storm subsided after a while and the boat reached the riverbank. In his previous life as Trip a, the lion in the he had killed, his Lion) soul in the form of god Sudam ra, out of enmity, caused the windstorm in the river. When Mah v ra crossed Gamg , two N ga princes Kambala and ambala served the Lord to get over this calamity.
The Interpretation of Pu ya
Alighting from the boat the Lord reached the vicinity of 'Sth ka'. There he stood in meditation at a place. Seeing the Lord's footprints, a soothsayer in that village named Pu ya said - "A person of these footprints must be a cakravart. Perhaps on account of a difficult situation he is wandering alone, let me go help him.” Thinking thus, following the footprints he came to the Lord. Seeing a monk in the place of an emperor or prince, he was surprised as to how could a person, with all the qualities of a cakravart, is a monk? Are the scriptures wrong? At that point Devendra appeared and said – "This is not an ordinary person; he is a great dharma-cakravart (a spiritual emperor) who is venerated by gods and Indras alike.” The soothsayer saluted the Lord and left.
The entry of Go laka in the Lord's service
Wandering this way, the Lord reached R jag ha and came to a shed in N land for the rainy season halt. The Lord's broke his first month fast at merchant Vijaya's house. There was a divine sound in the sky with a show of five auspicious things. With a pure feeling, the merchant Vijaya
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