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the Gachha, should secretly follow the religion and do severe penance for twelve years, during which he should preach 18 kings; and then, he should again take up Dikşâ. Hearing those words, he changed his dress, and in a concealed form started off. After a few years he came to Ujjayini, went to the royal palace, and asked the door-keeper to go and inform the king that some unknown saint had come to see him, so he might let him know whether he would meet him or not. The geneous king atonce called him, and Siddhaséna began to recite Ślokas (verses) of his praises :
(i) "O king! The praises, made by the learned scholars, that you are ever-ready to give away (as gifts) anything, are false, because you have neither given your back (i.e. ran away) to your enemies, nor have you ever given your heart to any woman other than your own queen."
(2) "O king! As you have kept as your beloved the Godess of Speech upon your tongue, and on your lotus-like hand always rests the Godess of Wealth, the Fame, in the form of your lady being greatly annoyed by the sympathetic treatment that her two co-wives get from you, has as if lost her temper, and so wanders in different countries.'
(3) "O king! Whence did you learn such an extraordinary archery-by the power of which Marganaugha (a number of arrows) comes towards you instead of going forward; and the Guna (the bowstring ) goes in the opposite direction ?"
The purport this verse means to convey, is that Margapaugha ( a number of mendicants) approach you with a hope to get some alms from you, and so, your Guna' (fame) travels even in far off countries.
(4) "O Lord of the earth! As soon as the warning trumpet of your marching with your army, blows, the pots of hearts of your enemies are cracked and broken; and the wonder is that the stream of water that flows from the pots, runs heavily through the eyes of the wives of your enemies!"
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