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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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43 back Seyapaa and Atthārasavanka to Kaniya and may I sond prince Vehalla or should I engage into war with him ? Then the eighteen tributary kings viz. the nine Mallais and the nine Lechhais of the Kâsî and the Kosala countries respectively spoke to king Chedaya thus: “ Truly, O lord, it is not proper, opportune or worthy of a king like you to give back Seyanaa and Atthārasavanka to king Kîniya and to send back prince Vehalla who has taken your shelter. Therefore, if king Kaniya is forthwith coming here prepared to fight being surrounded by four-fold army we shall fight with king Kîniya.”
58. Then that king Chedaya spoke to those eighteen tributary kings, the nine Mallais and the nine Lechhais of Kâsî and Kosal respectively, thus: “ you beloved of the gods, if you intend to fight with king Kîniya then go, O you beloved of the gods, to your respective kingdoms and having taken your baths (everything else is to be reproduced here exactly as in the case of Kila and others $ 54, down to ) they (the tributary kings ) congratulated him ( Chedaya ) with the words: “ Victory to you, victory to you." Then that king Chedaya
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