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'In this very land of Bharata there is a city named
Amarávatí; in it there was a STORY OF KING HARISHEŅA, king named Harishena, and he
WHO BECAME A HERMIT. had a wife named Priyadarçana ; they had a son named Jinasena. One day a horse, that had been trained in an inverse manner,* carried off King Harishena. He came to this very wood, and got rid of his horse, and gradually wandering about in the wood, the king reached a hermitage, and there he bowed before the abbot Viçvabhúti, sprung from the family of Kachchhamahákachchha. The hermit, knowing. by his marks that he was a king, blessed him, and said: “Whence have you come hither? How is it that you are alone ?” Then the king, being asked this question by the hermit, told the whole truth. In the meanwhile the army, that was following the king, arrived, and rejoiced when they saw the king. Then the army encamped outside the hermitage. The king remained there a whole month, courting the favour of the hermits, and he had this temple of Rishabha built. When he was leaving, the hermit gave King Harisheņa a charm for destroying the effects of poison. Then the king went to his own town. The people showed great joy when he made his entrance into the town. So he continued governing his kingdom. One day, as he was sitting in the hall of audience, a man came and said : “King, there is a city called Mangalávatí. In it there reigns a king named Priyadarçana, and he has a queen named Vidyutprabhá. They have a daughter named Prítimati, who has been bitten by a serpent, and I have been sent by my master to inform you.” When the king heard this, he travelled to that place by means of swift camels, and by means of that very poison-counteracting charm freed the maiden from the influence of the poison. Then her father gave her to him, and he married her, and returned with her to his own city. There he lived happily, and after the lapse of some time he committed the care of his kingdom to his son, and
* I.e., to gallop when it should stop, and vice versa. † Compare . Kathá Sarit Ságara,' vol. i., p. 461.
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