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the son of the king and the son of the chaplain came to the spot. Both of them, when they saw the hermit, shut the door, and said: 'Come, hermit, dance.' The bermit said: 'How am I to dance without music? So you two must play music in an agreeable manner, in order that I may satisfy your desire for seeing dancing.' Then the hermit laid aside his begging-bowl and began to dance. Then the hermit said: 'You two do not know how to play music properly.' This enraged the company. The son of the king and the son of the chaplain said: 'We are at home in the accomplishment of fighting, but we do not profess the accomplishment of music.' The hermit said: Then fight with me.' Then the hermit began to fight with them. Then the hermit vanquished them in fight, and, paralyzing the limbs of both of them,* opened the door and departed. Then Ságarachandra the hermit went to the garden to engage in religious meditation. Munichandra heard what had happened, but he could not find the hermit Ságarachandra, though he looked for him everywhere. Then he asked the hermits. They said: To-day a guest came, but he has gone somewhere, and we do not know where; however, he was seen to-day standing in the garden.' So King Munichandra went there and reproached the hermit. The hermit reproached the king, saying: 'King, does this contempt for hermits become you, of all people ?' The king was ashamed, and went on to say: 'My lord, do me a favour release the prince and the other young man.' The hermit said: 'If they will take a vow I will release them.' The king agreed to that. Then he gave back to both of them the use of their limbs, and they both of them took a vow. The prince duly observed his vow under his uncle Ságarachandra, but the chaplain's son became disgusted. Then they died and went to the world of the gods. There they both made this mutual agreement, that whichever of them first fell from the world of the gods was to be admonished by the other. So the soul of the chaplain *Gátrabhangam kritvá. I suppose their limbs were put out of
joint.
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