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to wait till he returns after the worship, since the story was a long one. While the mendicant worshipped the Lord with rare lotuses, the prince was looking at the girl. The mendicant performed the worship along with the girl. Meanwhile, the prince and the girl looked at each other over and over again. After performing the worship the mendicant returned to the pavilion, and said to the prince: 'O Prince ! Get down from the monastery and come to my cottage. Let us welcome and honour you. Prince went into the cottage on being invited by the mendicant, and sat on the eat offered by him. The mendicant then, started relating the curious story about the girl.
The Biographical Account of Hariseñamuni :
There is a city named Mamtritāvatī, similar to Amarāvatī. King Harisena rules there. He has a wife named Priyadarśanā, and they have a son named Ajitsena.
Once when the king was going to his kingdom, some ill-trained horse drew him in the forest. Since the king could not stop the horse he lifted himself up and hung down by taking hold of the branch of a Bunyan tree, and let the horse go away, and the got down on the ground. He went further on, and found a lake where he washed his mouth, and then entered into the hermitage. There, the parrots were giving an advice to the disciples of the ascetic to welcome the guest. The deer had their mouths full foam after they had eaten from the heaps of grains that were scattered. The young ones of the deer were sitting in the lap of the mendicant. The group of the ascetics was sitting in the shade under the tree, and Viśvabhūti, the Head of the hermitage, born in the lineage of Kaccha-Mahākaccha, was sitting there surrounded by the ascetics. The king saw him and bowed down to him. The mendicant, too, blessed him, and asked him of the whereabouts. The king folded his palms and informed him about all that had happended to him, and worshipped him. At that time was a terrible uproar in the forest. The ascetics in the hermitage looked at each others' faces out of curiosity about it. The king told them that his army had followed him. The king had followed him. The king appeared before the army, and the soldiers were happy on seeing the king. The army encamped in the forest. The king stayed in the hermitage for a month and worshipped the mendicant, who informed him that the temple was built by King Harisena. When the king set out to go in the city, the mendicant Visvabhūti gave him a mystic formula that would remove the effect of the poison.
Once, while the King Harisena was sitting in his assembly, a royal
