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CHAPTER III
ŚRUTA KÉVALINS
NO. 3 ŚRUTA-KÉVALI ACARYA PRABHAVA SWĀMĪ
Prabhava, the elder son of King Vindhya of Jayapuri Nagari located amidst the Vindhya range of mountains, joined a band of robbers as his right of becoming the legitimate claimant to his fathers throne had been set aside and the management of the affairs of the entire kingdom was entrusted to his younger brother.
Within a short time, Prabhava became the head of the gang, and the practised high-way robbery on a large scale in surrounding villages and towns, in company with his five hundred comrades.
There, he became competent in arzigarfzat faur Tālodghātini Vidya, the art of opening locks,-and in fat faur Avasvapini Vidya,-the art of including sleep.
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One day, having heard that extensive celebrations on a grand scale, were being performed in Raja-griha, at the house of the millionair Seth Risabha-datta, on the marriage occasion of his son Jambū Kumāra, the robber-chief Prabhava secretely entered the merchant's house at night with the object of plundering the immense wealth there, and having lulled all the family-members to sleep by means of his Avasvāpini Vidya, began to open all the locks by means of the Tälodgha-tini Vidya with the aid of his comrades. All the locks in the house were opened, and a large number of valuable articles were collected in heaps with the object of carrying them away whenever an opportunity of doing so occurred.
Now, it so happened that, Prabhava, entered the millioner's house, with the object of plundering it, during the same
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