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slept there for the night. During the last quarter of the night, the younger of the two told his elder brother :-Brother ! Let us have some unprecedented story, so that we may be able to pass our night nicely here. The elder brother said :-My dear ! What is the use of listening to other stories. Hear our own interesting account.” He replied, “Well, let it be so," The elder brother, then, commenced the following account :
"Our mother went to public roads with flower-garlands in her hands, but she did not return home. Even with careful search in the whole towa, no clue about her where-abouts was obtained. Our father, also, becoming distressed, went to the bank of the river with both of us. While crossing the river with the object of making inquiries about our mother on the other bank of the river, vur father was dragged in water, and, being carried away in the swift current of waters of the river, he went away to a distant land. We both of us were helpless, and a cow-herd took us to bis cow-pen. We grew up there. One day, we went to see the king The klag-our father-recognised us. While living here we came to the ship out of curiosity." In this way, the elder of the two, narrated the account to his younger brother. Šilavati, who was staying in the adjoining compartment over-heard the whole account from its beginning and becoming greatly delighted on knowing the indescribable but entirely experienced account given by her sons, with her bodice tořn on account of intensive horripilation of joy, and with the flow of milk from her breast owing to love for her children, at once went to them saying BONS acquired after a long time I Come and give a loving embrace to me-your mother. She told them her previous account. Her, elder son recognised her perfectly well. With both her song clinging fast to her neck, she began to lament with a faltering tone expressive of a long-continued violence of the agony of separation. On knowing the true state of affairs, the attendants of the two princes consoled her disturbed mind.
At Sun-rise, one of the attendants speedily went to King Nand-Vikrama and told him:-O great king 1 Your beloved
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