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of the territory Vijaya, as the son of merchant Ratnasagara in the womb of his wife S'rimati. The other also returned as the hunter's dog and died; and thereafter was born with the age of three Sagaropamas there (i. e. S'arkaraprabha ) and wandering in the lives of lower beings, he was born as a son to the maid-servant of my father's house by the name of Narmada. We were born at the fitting time and reached infancy. Our names were fixed; my name was Candrasira and the other's Anahaka. We both came up to youth. I accepted a wife. Thus we were addicted to the pleasures of senses. On account of the close association of the previous birth, the consequential cheating of me by him would not be wiped away. Once the revered teacher, Vijayavardhana, came there with a vow of staying a month. I took to the religious order of a Sravaka at his feet. Some other time, when the king had gone on a long military journey and when we had been to another village, the chief of the S'abara-army, by the name of Vindhyaketu [92] having brought the city to rack and ruin, kidnapped some people. We heard about this and came to the town. We saw it (i. e. the town) imitating the form of a funeral-ground. When people were searched for (in the town), it contained all people; only my wife Candrakanti was kidnapped. Then unhappiness was produced and anxiety was bora in me; "Alas, how will that poor woman, who has not seen separation from me, hold up life?' In the meantime I was spoken by an old Brahmana by the name of Devas'arman,
Son of a merchant, do not bewail; for in this very country from the place called, S'risthala, people were kidnapped by S'abaras. They, without exception, were released on the payment of a great amount of money,
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