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with goods valuing five lakhs of dināras, and started on their expeditions accompanied by their wives. 411, 12.
On his march Dharaṇa observed a young Vidyadhara trying in vain to fly up into the air, and enquired what had happened to him. The Vidyadhara related that he was Hema. kundala, a native Amarapura. Once his father had been visited by his friend Vidyunmālin who stated that he had witnessed an occurrence in Ujjayint.which much distressed him. Jayasri, daughter of king Śríprabha, had been asked for in 'marriage by Siśupāla, a prince of Konkaņa, but she had been given to the Vatsa prince Srivijaya. When the wedding was being held, the princess was carried off by Šišupāla. Srivijaya pursued him, and killed him in battle, but was himself severely wounded. Jayaárt had then vowed to abstain from food as long as Srivijaya would take none. Vidyunmálin, therefore, feared "for both their lives. On hearing his account Hemakundala remembered having heard from a friend of a miraculous herb growing on the Himālaya which cured all wounds; and he hoped to cure Srivijaya with this herb. He, therefore, flew to the Himālaya and had rested a while as he came back with the herb : but when he wanted to resume his flight, he had forgotten one word of his spell and thus lost the faculty of flying. Dharaņa male him récite the spell, and being a padīnusārin found out for him the missing word. Grateful for his help Hemakundala presented Dharana with a bracelet made of the miraculous herb and went his way. 415, 2.
Once Dharana saw a troop of wailing young Sabaras pass his camp and asked them the cause of their distress. They related that Kālasena, the headman of their village, had had an encounter with a lion in which he killed the lion, but had himself received a fracture of the skull. Deeming himself past help he resolved to drown himself. His wife, though big with child, decided to do the same. To comfort her, the Sabaras concluded, they had been sent to fetch her father.—Dharana went with them to their village, and by means of the miraculous herb he healed the wound of Kālasena.' As a reward for his hesp, Dharana made him promise to give up hunting. 417, 12.
After some days Dharana, while encamped at Ayamuhi,
