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of both prince Yugabāhu and king Maạiratha, and consecreted prince Candrayaśas on the throne.
While they were listening to the narration by the saint, there discended a divine aeroplane with a god from the sky. The god alighted from the plane, circumvented Madanarekha thrice in respectful awe, saluted her first, and then offered his salutations to the saint. Noticing this rather unusual procedure of the god, the Vidyādhara inquired of him as to the reason why he committed sacriledge by giving precedence to a woman in offering of salutations in preference to a revered saint. In reply the god narrated how in his previous birth he was her husband Yugabābu, and how her religious instruction at the time of his death had earned him the present godhood and celestial emperorship in the fifth heaven called Brahmaloka. Hence, he added, she was his preceptor who, therefore, was to be saluted first in preference to other saints. Having heard this, all the three divine beings conferred recognition on Madanarekbā as an ideal of womaply matrimonial chastity.
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The Vidyadhara took her to the city of Mithila where Madanarekba took to renunciation and got initiated as a nun. The Vidyadhara, then, departed for his destination.
Her second son, on the other hand, which was found and carried to his queen by king Padmaratha of Mithila, was named Nami and entrusted to the teachers for proper royal princely education. He mastered seventytwo arts and crafts, and after that he was married to one thousand and cight princesses, with whom he enjoyed life to his heart's content.
As king Padmaratha grew old, he thought of renouncing the worldly life. After imparting proper practical instructions towards keeping oneself away from certain human failings like the company of rogues, arrogance of youth, taking to flesh and wine, associating with harlots, and, having consoled the prince, he made over the charge of the kingdom to prince Nami and retired,
Once, king Nami heard a Vaitalika recite some verses suggesting some mishap. Soon the elephant-trainer arrived and informed the king that the principal royal elephant was mad with the advent of ichor and had run away in direction of the Vindhya mountain. A few days elasped after which somebody reported to the king that the elephant had been caught on his way by king Candrayasas of Sudarśanapura. King Nami dispatched a messenger asking king Candrayaśas to return the elephant, but the latter
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