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of his life, of killing life before the caravan that had entered the forest Kadambari, excepting for the meal when there is no food or when the village or the surrounding country is looted. He worshipped the deity with flower-offerings, scented objects and sandal. He took Dharana along with all who were arrested, to his own residence, and offered fitting courtesy.
After they had dined, all the wealth which the lord of S'abaras took, all of a sudden as the caravan was put to destruction, was brought to him. ( 41 )
The wealth consisted of fine big pearls that were produced from the temples of elephants, the tusks of elephants and the chowries of the best yaks. (42)
[36] He (i. e. Dharana) accepted that wealth and gave some of it to the prisoners; and saying—'You can move about happily,' he made them free. (43)
Even Dharana, having out of affection to Kālasena spent sometime there, was given leave by Kālasena to go. He went towards his own town and reached there after some
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