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and overheard the ladies there speaking out that the king was going to be defeated the next morning.
Pained at this he went out to the temple of the Yaksa who regarded entering into dispute with Deva da maņi as a folly on his part and advised him to go to Indra's heaven where she was to dance that very night.
The king went to the heaven by virtue of the power of Agnivetäla who transformed himself into a bee and broke down Deva dama pi's crest. ornament of Campaka flowers when she was fully engrossed into dancing, which, in its turn, broke one of her anklets while dropping down from her head. Vikramā dit ya picked up them both and the third thing that he took away was the betel-roll which was offered to her by Indra himself. Deva da maņi was so engrossed in dancing that she did not notice this.
Thereafter both of them returned home. The next morning when she went to the palace for continuing the game, the king was still in his bed and had to be awakened. When she remarked that the king had slept for a very long period, he retorted that being invited by Indra at a dance-performance he had to go to his heaven the previous night and that when the dancing girl, with all pride, would not cover her body, he caught hold of her crest-ornament. He showed it to her and she missed the expected dice. Likewise he also showed the anklet as well as the betel-roll and in this way she missed the dice thrice. The king won and married her. Thus was secured the first handle.
Desire 2:
"Bring the jewels from the second storey of the palace of king Trambasena of the city of Tram ba va ti."
Vikra m āditya went to Tram bā vati, when the king's meals. prepared outside, were being brought into the palace through attendants. He mixed himself among them and entered the palace which compi than 50 apartments. At sunset he began to move from one apartment to another but did not find the jewels. Then he entered a third one along with a low-caste dame. It was the residence of the virgin princess and was locked after the dancing girls dispersed.
After a while a letter was delivered to the princess through a balcony, which she read after opening the trellis. She took the jewels and mounted a red she-camel which was brought there. Her dvipați, however, was left there. Vikramā dity a slipped it down beneath the lattice and as the man sent
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