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No. 3. Sthavira Arya Prabhava Swami.
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 father's 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 he 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 ara arftat four Tálodghátini Vidyā, the art of opening locks, and in 3 Fufgat for Avasvāpinî Vidyā, the art of inducing sleep.
One day, having heard that extensive celebrations on a grand scale, were being performed in Rāja-griba, at the house of the millioner Sheth Rişabba-datta, on the marriage occasion of his son Jambu Kumára, 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 bis À vasyāpinî Vidyā, began to open all the locks by means of the Tālodgha-tini Vidyā 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 night-the first night of meeting of Jambu Kumāra with his wives-in which Jambū Kumāra was instructing his newlymarried wives in religious subjects on the seventh storey of the building.
