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the principal mountains. He had pulled down balconies by the dashing of his firm tusks, and he had injured numerous persons by blows with his trunk, by wounding with his tusks, and by pressure with his feet. By the spread of lamentations of people in squares, market-places, and public places-resembling the dense roaring of the great ocean churned by Mandarā-cala (name of a sacred mountain with which the ocean was churned ), the king Narasimha inquired :-Ah ! How is it that such tumultuousnoise is heard in the town ?” People informed him ;-0 good king! Your Jaya-Kunjara elephant has shattered the tyingpost, and he is destroying people, and property in the town.” On hearing this, the king sent his prince Nara-Vikrama Kumara and a number of his ministers, and feudatory rulers 'to seize Jaya-Kunjara elephant saying :-"Ah! You catch him without inflicting any blow with a weapon'. Having duly received order, all of them went in the direction of the elephant; but they could not find out any stratagem by which Jaya--Kunjara elephant can be entrapped.
Just at this moment, a respectable female of a good family, runding here and there, out of alarm, was seen by JayaKunjara elephant. She was bearing the full term of pregnancy; she was walking very slowly on account of the heavy burden of her foetus and her entire body was trembilng with fear of immlaent danger to le. On seeing her, the elephant, raising his trunk, ran towards her as fast as wind. When she saw the elephant quickly approaching her, she became perfectly unable to move on account of great sear, and she began to lament with a piteous and mournful voice:-O Mother brother ! O father! Protect me. Do not disregard me at this hour. This wicked elephant has come quite close to me with the object of killing me. Ab! spectators! Do not become hard-hearted. Stop this elephant. How can I run as I am with a burden of a foetus of full term of pregnancy! Abi how swiftly the wicked elephant has come near me! I am defenceless and help-less! What course can I take? Is there not any great man living for the welfare of
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