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bank of the Indus," where he witnessed a very curions soene : a wako devouring a frog, was being devoured by av osprey, which itself was dovoured by an huge serpent. To the king this courronce appeared symbolical of the baseness of the world, and reflecting on it during the following night he made up his mind to become an ascetio. Next morning Durmati oame and implored the king's forgiveness which was readily granted. . 124, 5.
On his return to Jayapura the king informed his, ministers of his resolution to enter the Order and got their assent to it. The astrologers fixed the fifth day thence as an auspicious time for the anointment of prince Ananda. Everything was made ready for the coronation, after which Simha intended to join his guru Dharmaghoşa. 125, 5.
Ananda conspired with Durmati to kill the king. He regarded the coronation as a ruse to take his life; anyhow, he resolved to kill his father. When the latter sent for him, he refused to come. The king, therefore, went himself to meet him. Ananda now had an opportunity for executing his plan; he suddenly drew his sword and wounded his father severely. But the troops came to his help; they surrounded and attacked Ananda. The king, however, restrained them : as he was to die very soon, they ought to spare his son and anoint him king. As soon as Ananda was recognized as king, he ordered Durmati to put the old king in a most horrid dungeon. There the queens visited him and bewailed his cruel lot. The king, however, blamed them for their grief, and discoursing on the vanity of all things he admonished them to renounce the world. . They followed his advice and became nuns. 128, 5.
The king resolved to starve himself ; when Ananda hoard that his father refused all food, he sent one of his noblemen, Devasarman, to persuade him to take food; but his arguments could not change the king's resolve. 129, 10, Now Ananda
. Apparently Haribhadra has forgotten that he had laid the scene of the moond Bhave in Aparavidoha; the Indus is aot a river of that counary, but of Bharatavarpa
