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Fate! I do respectful salutation to Theel Shower all calamities on me, instead on my family-members, by which other persous may live happily.
At this time, King Kirtivarmā of the neighbouring Jayavardhana Nagara died suddenly from intestinal colic. He was without an heir and so, his ministers and feudatory rulers met to-gether and they made a following panca-divya-Five excellent objects... viz I, Female elephant with a Kalasa in her truok. 2. Horse 3. Camara (a chowrie) 4. Chatra (an umbrella), and 5, Dhyaja (a baoner) pure by ablation. Then they went in search of any person suitable for the kingdom. They could not find out any suitable man in the town, and so, they went out of the town with the parca-divyas and came to the place where Nara-Višrama Kunāra wat sitting, with his mind engrossed in anxiety. On seeing a big elephant with an extensive, terrible trunk coming swiftly towards him, the Kumāra thought:- It seems to me that Fate is now desirous of doing that which had been ordained by it previously; otherwise, why should there be an elephant with his trunk raised up, coming here? Or, let him come here and do whatever he likes, so thal my pain of separa. tion from my wife and from my children may be extirpated" With a roaring noise resembling the thundering of clouds, the elephant fifted up Nara-Vikrama Kumāra by her tronk and immediately placed him on his back. Thu horse made a neighing sound and there was a fudden outburst of Jaya-dhvani : Sound of Victory) The Kumāra surrounded by ministers and feudatory princes entered the town. There was great rejoicing in the town, and kings who had not been subdued before, came and bowed down low at the Kuinār's feei, Nara-Vikrama Kumāra thus had the entire kingdom under his authority, and he had elephants, horses, wealth, jewellery and prosperity of kingdom similar to that of King Narasimha. The Kumāra thus, began to enjoy various pleasures of this world, but the unbearable separation from his wife and children, w3s constantly pinching his heart like a thora.
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