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enemy are swooping on me like a swarm of locusts and will certainly annihilate my small forces.". The Sūri thereupon consoled the King and promised to remedy and avert the evil. The Sūri then by his first mystic lore of Suvarnasiddbi produced huge mass of gold and by means of his other lore created a mighty force. With its help Devapāla defeated his enemy. Delighted at his guccess, the King conferred the title of Divakara on Süri The significance of the title of Divā kara (the Sun) was obviously this that the Sūri like the god Sun dissipated the darkness in the form of the terror of the enemy. After this, Siddhasena became conspicuous as Siddhasena Divā kara. .
After this incident his old preceptor Vțdd havādi heard that Siddhasena had become renowned and was respected even in royal courts and had fallen a prey to the temptation of the reception in the royal courts, had begun to use palanguins, had kept with him elephants and that che frequently visited the royal courts. In order to persuade Sidabasena to give up this dangerous path his preceptor went to the town of Karmăr disguised as a Brahmin. Arriving there he saw that the reports he had heard were quite true and that Siddhasena was daily using palan quins, was enjoying the paraphernalia of the king every day and was always surrounded by royal person'ages. The preceptor thereupon approached him as an humble student and said, “I have heard sufficiently of - your high reputation and have come here to get my difficulties solved from you " Siddhasena said, “ All right. Let me know what your difficulties are." After
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