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about to overtake Vatsaray when he soon threw one pot of urine and it was spilt. The elephant stopped to smell it. Vatsa. rāj threw away all the four pots one after the other as the elephant seemed to overtake him. He traversed no less than a hundred yojanas and reaching Kaushambi entered his capital. The army of the King armed itself fully for battle. The soldiers pursuing however were despaired and returned to Ujjaini.
This sad news reached the ears of King Pradyota, he was enraged and ordered to prepare the army for battle. The advisers, however, reasoned with him that when his princess was to be given in marriage to some one it was not possible to get a better bridegroom than Udayana for Vasavdattâ. Besides Vāsavdatta herself had made the choice and he should rather approve of the union and acknowledge him as his worthy son-in-law. The king was persuaded, and as a token of acknowledgement of union he transmitted a number of wedding gifts worthy of the event.
Both the above episodes one in Baudha, and other in Jain Literature bear out the fact that there must be some truth in the story. Details may have been embellished by the writer's pen no doubt, still it appears quite evident that both King Pradyota and King Udayana were contemporaries ruling over neighbouring States. They were united by ties of wedlock, and; there are events to show that they had fought on the field of battle.
The story in the Jain books shows that the distance between Ujjain and Kaushambi was about a hundred yojanas. They were related as father-in-law and son-in-law. Besides it appears from the fact Mragavati, the mother of Udayana and Queen Shiva one of the wives of Chanda Pradyot were sisters and both were the daughters of King Chetak of Vaishali. So Chanda Pradyota of Avanti was a maternal uncle to Udayana.
The story also adds that ChandaPradyota being enamoured of Mrigavati, his sister-in-law from here portrait, had requested
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