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201 After the completion of eight years, the boy asked his mother " O mother ! You appear to be in the dress of a married woman, Where is my father : She said " O child ! Your father has taken at Dikṣā, when I was pregnant. 1 have reared you up. O long-lived child You have not seen your father and your father has not even seen you. When one day, your father Sayyambhava-bhatta was performing
Yajnas,-Sacrifices,-some Sādhús came to him, and they gave him Dîkşā.” On hearing this, the boy became very eager to see his worshipful father. He, therefore, left his house with the permission of his mother.
Ācārya Sayyambhava-Sūri was at the time residing at arget Campāpurî The boy, attracted as it were by the mass of his meritoricus deeds, went there. Sayyambhava Sūri while going out of the town for a call of nature, saw the lotus-eyed boy coming from a distance. On seeing the boy, Sayyambhava Sūri became increasingly delighted by excessive affcction, like the ocean on seeing the Moon, and the face of the boy on seeing the nectar-like appearance of the sage, immediately expanded with joy like the closed bud of 'the lotus-flower. The Ācārya then delightfully inquired “O fortunate child ! Who are you? Where do you come from? Whose son or grandson are you? The boy said, “I am coming here from Rājagriha Nagarî. I am the son of a Brāhmin named Sayyam. bhava of Vatsa-gotra. When I was in my mother's womb, my father had taken Dikşā. I am wandering from town to town to find him out If you know my father sayyambhava, please do me the favour of saying where he is. If I personally see my father, I am desirous of having Dikgā at his hands. I will have the same fate as he has.
The Ācārya replied, “O child I I know your father. He is my friend. He and myself are bodily inseparate. You know, therefore, he is myself. O fortunate child! You accept, therefore, Dikṣā at my hands. The Ācārya thinking that he had
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