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splendour of a spinal column with three separate bones. On hearing the news of the birth of a son, King Prajāpati became greatly pleased and he ordered great festivals to be celebrated in temples. Besides, a great festival was celebrated in the whole town, where beggars were greatly delighted by receiving unimpeded gifts of gold, where the main road appeared beautiful by quantities of flowers strewn there, where handsome young females met together singing auspicious songs, and where several religious rites for averting. evil had begun at various places.
On the next day, the elderly women of the family, on seeing an articulation with three separate bones on the back of the child, decided and named him farge Tripristha with great pomp. Carefully nourished by five wet-nurses, affectionately passing from one lap to another, for being fondled like a precious gem, and surrounded by numerous servants and flatterers, Tripristha Kumāra, grew up to boyhood. On an auspicious day, with omenous planetary conjunction, Tripristha Kumāra was sent with due ceremony to a teacher for the study of various arts and sciences. With his superior in-born intellect. Tripristha Kumāra was able to learn all the arts and sciences from his Guru in a short time. Acquiring extensive knowledge, Tripristha Kumāra respectfully knelt down at the feet of his respected teacher, and with his permission, he went to his own palace.
Then, not enduring a moment's separation from his brother Acala Kumāra, the sportive Tripristha Kumāra began to amuse himself fearlessly as he liked, in excellent pleasure-garden's. Although his body was smooth, and tender, on seeing the prowess of whis strong arms, thousands of wrestlers and warriors used to tremble with their faces gloomy through terror. People jokingly given a slight blow with his fist, were able to survive only by efficacious treatment from their servants. Wherever Tripristha Kumăra sportively placed his lotus-like feet, the earth below it, used to shake as if beaten by a thunder-bolt. Besides, wherever be threw his sight, servants leaving aside their work
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