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from them. Followed by the thousands of rulers of small coun. tries, visiting remarkable towns etc, and appointing different kings for Anga, Vanga, Kalinga and other countries, he reached Magadha
There, Tripristha Kumāra saw a huge slab of stone which could be raised up by ten million persons, and having raised It high quite easily by his left arm with the pride of the strength of his arms, he supported it over his head like an umbrella. On secing him possessed of unequalled valour, the kings with their eyes widening with grat delight, made a shout of victory, and the bards began to praise him thus :O lord! Your arm resembling the esculent tubular fibrous root of the lotus and capable of supporting ihe extensive Kotitila shows your equality with Sésa Nāga (ferpent holding the surface of the earth on its head ) Whose heart will not tremble by this sportiveness of yours ! But that man should not always be made of stone." Being tbus praised in various ways by bards, the Kumāra left the Kotisilā there, and procee dad to return to his capital town. On his way back, he went to Dangakıranya, and having kept his entire army with him, he remained there for several days.
Marriage with Vijayavati One night, when all the servants were fast asleep, Tripristha Vasudeva, with the object of testing the sincerity of faithful and faithless servants, put on a changed apparel, and taking discus la his hand and escaping the notice of his bodyguard-sentinels riding on elephants for patrol, went out of his tent, and as soon as he was preceeding onward after walking here and there without his foot-steps being heard, and leaving behind him the locality occupled by his army, he heard a gentle nolse at a short distance. Tripristha Vasudeva at once ran in the direction out of curiosity, and reached an extensive forest full of numerous trees. On his arrival there, the noise at once subsided, and while he was thinking:-"* Is it an indication of some approaching danger or is it an aberration of my mind ?
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