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[6. BHAVA.
gathered their troops and proceeded, through the air, to mount Vaitadhya at the foot of which they pitched their camp. The general of the enemy, Durmukha, challenged my general Candasimha, but was killed by the latter in single combat, upon which his troops ran away. 380, 9. Both armies got ready for fight and a general battle ensued. 383, 17. First the two generals met in single combat; but this time Candasimha was killed by his adversary Kancanadaņstra. Thereupon both armies engaged in close fight. At last I espied Anantgarati and challenged him. After a long combat he was defeated. He ceded me his kingdom and retired to an hermitage for the rest of his life. My wife and I being now reunited, we visited her parents and were reconciled to king Isānacandra. 386, 18.
My wife gave birth to a boy who was predestined to become an universal king of the Vidyādharas as shown by her dreaming, in her pregnancy, of an elephant entering her body through her mouth ; I named my son Ajitabala.
When he had grown up, I bethought myself of visiting · my parents, and went in a Vimāna to Svetavi together with my wife and son. My parents dying after some time, “I placed my younger brother Kirtinilaya on the throne and returned to Rathanūpura-cakravālapura. 389, 2. . • Once I met Citrāngada, & Šramana of the Vidyādharas, who converted me to the Jaina faith. I asked him to explain by reason of what deed in our former birth I and my wife had to endure separation in the present one. According to his account, I had been prince Rāmagupta of Kāmpilya: and Vilāsavati, princess Haraprabhā from Uttarāpatha, who had become my wife. Once we had bathed in a pond of the palace and were anointing ourselves, when we caught a couple of ducks and, for fun, daubed them.with saffron. I had done this to the drake and my wife to the duck. The birds did not recognize each other and in great despair wahted to put an end to their life by diving and remaining under water. But somehow,"they came again to the surface, and recognized each other,' as the paint had been washed off. For our wanton cruelty, the saint con
aluded, we had been punished in our present life by a tempora..sy separation.
