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replied that I was quite right and she had only wanted to put me to the proof. 318, 3.
Some time afterwards Vinayamdhara, superintendent of the town and friend of the king, paid mo a visit, and when we were alone he gave me the following account. 'In Svastimati, a town in your father's kingdom, there lived a gallant knight named Virasena. When his wife was big with child, he went with her on a journey to her father's place Jayasthala, and on the way he pitched his camp outside Svetavl. There he granted his protection to a thief who had fled to his camp, and refused to deliver him to the policemen who came in search of him; and when the king sent a troop of soldiers who surrounded the camp, he gave them battle. At that juncture, you, prince Sanatkumāra, returning from a tour, supported Virasena. The king forbade further fighting and Virasena proceeded to Jayasthala, where I was born by his wife. Your father, therefore, is the benefactor of my parents and of myself. 321, 10. Now hear why I have come to you. To-day the king entered Anangavati's appartment and found her with her face scratched and sullied. She said that Sanatkumāra had made her tenders of love, and when she had repulsed him, had used her ill. The enraged king commanded me to put you secretly to death. I hesitated whether 'I should kill you, the son of my benefactor, or disobey the king. Several omeus clearly indicatod your innocence. Tell me, how to act!' I insisted on his executing the king's command, but as he obstinately refused tą docit, I proposed to run away from Támralipti. Accordingly I and Vasubhūti embarked on a ship bound for Suvarnadvipa and took leave from Vinayamdhara. 327, 17.
After two months we 'anded in Suvarnabhūmi and proceedod to Sripura. There I met a merchant whom I recognized to be my early friend Manoharadatta. He made us welcome in his house. I told him thau I had fallen out with my father and was going to visit my uncle, the king of Ceylon. When we were to leave, he presented me with a magic shawl by which the wearer could render himself invisible. - On my inquiry he told me how he had come by it. Once, he said, he had asked his friend the magician Siddhasena to show him a proof of his art, and the
