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troops which samaraketu had given him. 573, 10.--Poetical description of Sena's departure from Visvapura, of both armies, and of the battle.--At last Sena vanquished Muktāpida in single combat. He spoke kindly to his gallant enemy and dismissed him into his kingdom. 579, 11.
Sena then returned to Campā, where the people welcomed him with transports of joy; but he declined their homage emphasizing that Visena was their king. Messengers were dispatched to Vişeņa to make him return to his capital; but he sent them home with no courtesy and stayed away. 581, 9.
When Harişena, now a monk, heard the good news of Sona, whose sudden departure from Campā had been the principal cause of his renouncing the world, he thought it likely that he might, awaken him, and, therefore, went to Viávapura, where Sena came to see him. He spoke to him about the inconstancy of fortune, and in order to prove that men even for small faults are visited with grave affliction, he told him the
Story of Candra and Sarga. 583, 3—505, 4.
In Vardhană pura there lived a very poor man named Saddhada' with his wife Candrā 'and his son Sarga. On Saddhada's death the widow earned a livelihood by doing jobs in other. houses ; and Sarga by collecting fuel, etc. in the woods. Once Candrā was called upon to carry water to the house of some merchant; before going there she put the meal for her son in a bag. When Sarga came home, hångry and thirsty after his day's work, and found nothing to eat, he waxed wroth and reviled his mother on her return with these words : have you been impaled there, since you have forgotten the time of my meal ?' She replied: are your hands cut off, since you did not take it out of the bag and eat it?' Their rancorou speech produoed bad karma for both of them.--They wdre, however, converted to the Jains creed and afterwards entered the Order. After having died, by samlekhani they ascended to heaven. 584, 15.--Sarga was reborn in Tamralipti as Arunadeva, son of a merchant, and
1 Apparently the Apabbrala of Braddha. Sadvada in the Mamkyopa 18 s misprint for Saddhada. The name Deini alao is probably Apabhrada..
