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other nurses, who were made to hear " If there be a dereliction about the child any way, then you shall die at my hand." The queen and Matisagara both were reprimanded. Then he, following the mind of the minister and the queen, arranged for his birth-celebration a little secretly. Thus some time passed away. The name of the child was settled Ananda. He grew up and the cluster of arts was taught to him, [!13] On account of the taint of actions of previous: life, his mind was against the king. He was given the position of heir-apparent.
Once the tributary king named Durmati, who ruled on the frontier and who was the lord of the forest, being proud of the strength of his strategic position, attacked King Simha. He sent over him his army. On account of the strategic ground in his favour, he defeated king Simha. When this was reported to him, the king himself started with. wrath He went three marches. In the meantime, as he was having his marches on the sands of the Indus, he,(who was) on the back of the elephant, saw the crowd of people speaking‘O misery!'not very far from water. As the king went to that part of land, he saw an old serpent who was caught by a Kurala bird;whose body was rapidly coiling; whose face was terrible and was difficult to be seen; who in his turn had caught a croaking frog; whose sparkling eyes emitted poison; the colour of whose body was extremely black; and whose body was quite big. The kurala bird too was again caught by a boa who was frightful with red eyes and whose body was as big as the trunk of an elephant presiding over a direction. The more the boa caught the kurala.
