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attendants he instantly began to fight with me. Besides you are not unacquainted with what happened next" Vidyadharas equipped with the prowess of firm body-power and with armours on thelr bodies, on seeing the surface of the earth, instantly came here. I asked them :-Ah! What is your object la coming here?" They said "We have heard that our master has accidently come here." I showed them the fallen vidyadhara Becoming immensely delighted at the medicinal treatment rendered to him, they told me-O king! you have done well that you have timely come to his help. The king of the vidyadharas is greatly distressed, and so he bas sent vidyadhara warriors every where with the object of finding him out. He is the only son of the king of the vidyādbaras. Please, therefore, hend this Jayasekhara Kumāra with us, so that, we can readily entrust him, to his pareuts and family-members who are lager for his dartana. I told the vidyadhara :-" O Kumāra / You have heard whatever your attendants are desirous of telling you; now, lot me know what answer | should give them. The Kumāra said :"On one side, I have unparalled affection from you, and on the other, there is separation from my family-members. Both these idsas have been agitating my mind I entertained him by giving him delicions, food, divide clothes, gems, and various utensils and sent him to his own abode. At the time of departure, he said, “O King I shall go bodily from here, but my heart will remain with you as if at were fastened by a chain. Better to have loss of wealth, better to go away to a foreign land, and better to suffer from the misery of one's death, but separation from a good man produces millions of acute agonies" With these words, the vidyadhara, with his cheek wet by the flow of tears from his eyes caused by the agony of sorrow, saluted me, and went away into the sky accompanied by his attendants.
After I was looking at the valour of these vidyadharas flying in the sky, thinking about the fight between the vidy:dharas that I had before witnessed, and after I was considering about the length of time that I was here, I began to think about my administrative affairs. When I was thus meditating
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