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wrath of the Vidyādhara emperor, ordered the tribute to be paid immediately. But his son Tiviţtan would not permit this. He denied allegiance to the Vidyādhara emperor and sent the messenger back saying “No tribute will be paid hereafter.” One of the Vidyādhara ministers attached to Ašvagrīva's court wanted to kill this foolhardy kşatriya youth Tivittan by a stratagem. He assumed the form of a lion and destroyed the cattle of the land of Suramai belonging to the king Prajāpati. The sons of Prajāpati, Tivițțan and Vijaya, set out to slay the lion. The lion, which was the assumed form of the Vidyadhara minister, cleverly decoyed Tivitýan into a cave. Tivittan pursued the lion into the cave. There was a real lion in that cave which devoured the māyā lion and wanted to have Tivițțan also. Tiviţtan was not to be frightened by this. The Vidyadhara lion having disappeared into the mouth of the real lion of the cave, he caught hold of the head of the real lion and killed it easily. This killing of the lion was a part of the prediction given by the soothsayer to the king of Rādānūpura, the father of Svayamprabhā, who was to be given in marriage to Tivițțan. Therefore the king of Rādānūpura set out with his daughter Svayamprabhā for Potanapura where the Vidhyadhara princess was given in marriage to the gallant Tivițțan. The Vidhyādhara emperor Ašvagrīva, boiling with wrath because of the treatment meted out to his messenger by his subject's son Tivițţan, had now his anger aggravated because of the latter's marriage with a Vidyadhara princess. He could not brook the idea of an
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