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to the list and I was taken away before the king. I wept there copiously; and returned no answer to his questions. The king was greatly confused. He did not believe in the guilt, attributed to me. However, on the evidence before him, he banished me and the king's officers carried me out of the town and left me near the grove dedicated to the goddessi of the town (87. 23.) Unable to hear this insult, I determined to hang myself. But the goddess, out of compassion, revealed by bringing the king's mother under her psychic influence that I should be saved as I was innocent and that Jannadeva should be arrested. The king post-haste came to the spot and himself unfastened the knot and brought me to the town. As the king knew all the details about Jannadeva, he ordered that Jannadeva's eyes must be taken out and the tongue cut and that he should ask my forgiveness for the wrong done to me. I implored the king to save Jannadeva, out of the past friendship. The king acceded to my request. But seeing the perfidy of my friend, my mind turned away from this world. (90 10.) In the meantime, there arrived Ganadhara Agnibhuti and obtaining real knowledge through his teach
