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INTRODUCTION Hummary of the incidents mentioned in the latter part of the sixth canto and of the reflexions contained in the seventh and the eighth cantos.
The author of Prabandhacintāmani. states that Bhimadeva, the King of Anahillapura, admitted into his harem one, Caulādevi, who though not a Kșatriya virgin, and once, a courtezan by profession, was admired for her strength of character and devotion to her master. Their son was Haripāla. His son was Tribhuvanapāla and Tribhuvanapāla's son was Kumārapāla. It was predicted by those who were proficient in chiromancy that Kumārapāla would succeed Siddharāja on the throne of Anahillapura (Pattana); that ruling king, however, on account of the flaw in the parentage of the youth disliked the idea and always remained on the watch to put him to death. Kumārapāla, who'suspected this, passed several years in other countries as an ascetic. Once he returned to Pattana and resided in a convent. It happened to be the day on which Siddharāja had invited all the ascetios in the town for worshipping them by way of celebrating the anniversary of the death of his father Karņa. Kumārapāla was, therefore, obliged to be present along with all the ascetics. Siddharāja, when washing the feet of this assembly with earnest devotion, came to Kumārapāla and was struck when he noticed the extreme delicacy of the soles of his feet and such marks thereon as: had been described to him to be sure prognostications of sovereignty. Kumārapāla did not.fail to observe the change which had come over the face of the king and immediately fled away. Pursued by the soldiers of Siddharāja, he first hid himself in the work-house of a potter, and thon in a heap of thorny branches of troos in the field of
oultivator, and thus eluded the search of his pursuers,
