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are forty common dreams," &e. ( just as the Bralmor before hud suid). After this announcement had been made to her, the noble Trisalá unhesitatingly received what had been declared to her, and, having paid the King due reverence with joined hands, took her departure, and went to her own apartments.
From the day that the venerable ascetic Mahavíra took up his abode in the royal family, Kuvera, with all the hosts of earth's inhabitinercrods, called Trimbaka, under his command, had orders from Sakra to search every piace where treasure was likely to be, and, when they had found any, to carry it to the house of Siddhartha ; namely, to searclı out treasures of which the owners or guardins were dead, and the families to which they belonged had become extinct, or of which the owners or guardians and families to which they belonged had emigrated, and been long absent from the
debate carried on betweru him and the Southern Pandit. -0,". said Ganga, "he first held np one finger, twitting me with having only one eye; I held mp two, as much as to say, You have two now, but take care that I do not knock ont one of them: he then stretched ont liis hand, as I understood it, threatening to give men slap on the face: I then in a rage clenched my fist, thus bidding him take care that I did not knock out his teeth." Tire King sund his courtiers, after enjoying a hearty laugh, Ji missreihe oilamu with many presents.
