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Champapuri. The King called messenger and went to the court. Then a maidservant informed him that the queen has got burnt by lightening. The queen died of lightening. The king became very sad. I was sent to the teacher (upadhyaya) for study. After some time, there came a messenger from Kirtidharma, the King of Champapuri. The daughter of Kirtidharma, Kanakavati was very beautiful. Kirtidharma married her daughter to King Sugreeva. It was the second marriage of Sugreeva. Kanakavati gave birth to a son named Surabha. She wanted to give the royal throne to her own son. She wanted that the elder son Supratishtha should be ignored. She advised the King to sentence Supratishtha to prison. When I was told about the plot of my step-mother by my maidservant Subhagika, I develop hatred to my father as he had lost his discretion. I felt better to quit the state. I did so and now I am here in Palli. Then Dhandeva got permission from Supratishtha to go with his convoy. Dhanadeva was presented a handsome amount of fabulous jewels at the time of farewell. Dhanadeva asked Supratishtha about the source of so precious jewels. Then Supratishtha told that once in the morning when he was on hunting in the forest he heard cry of a women. I went in the same direction and surprised to see that near a tree an old man was crying surrounded by so many poisonous snakes. When I went closer to the man he suggested me to get out a jewel from his waist, which could disperse the poison of the snakes. He told me to get the jewel wetted by water and throw the water on his body. After throwing the water all the snakes got disappeared. Then he asked me that who am I? Where from I have come? What is my name and so on so forth? (172-250). Here the Second Chapter ends.
The third chapter of Surasundarichariam contains the following
story:
After introducing him with that old man Dhanadeva asked that old man to tell some thing about himself. He took a long breath and said that in this world a man with attachment, aversion and lacking foresightedness has sure to suffer. It is only due to the past karmas, which results in pain and pleasure. Talking about himself he said In this Bharata Kshetra, dividing it in two parts from east to west there
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