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GUNCHANDRA AND VIDYADHAR
VANMANTAR
(Eigth Birth) Gunchandra was the only son of King Maitreebal and Queen Padmavati. Maitreebal was the King of Ayodhya. Gunchandra was the mine of Virtues and was of amiable temperament.
When he was fifteen years old, he was once playing with his friends in the garden. All boys were absorbed in playing. Exactly at that time there was. heard from the sky a hard and unpleasant. sound from the sky. The sound was so terrible that all children ran helter-skelter in fear. Gunchandra stood there only. : Then one gigantic figure of a mani came running with a gigantic tree in his. hand to beat Gunchandra. But soon one:
