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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 tar Dîkýā, when I was pregnant. I 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, Sacri-fices, some Sadhūs came to him and they gave him Diksa." On hearing this, the boy became very eager to see his worship-ful father. He therefore left his house with the permission of his mother.
Acārya Sayyambhava-sūri was at the time residing at engt Campāpuri. The boy, attracted as it were by the mass of his meritorious deeds, went there. Sayyambhavasūri while going out of the town for a call of nature, saw the lotuseyed boy coming from a distance. On seeing the boy, Sayya. mbhavasūri became increasingly delighted by excessive affection 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 Acārya 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 Nagari. I am the son of a Brāhmin named Sayyambhava of Vatsa gotra. When I was in my mother's womb, my father had taken Diksā. 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 baving Dîkšā at his hands. I will have the same fate as he has.
The Acārya replied, “O child! I know your father. He is my friend. He and myself are bodily inseparate. You know, therefore, he is myself. O fortunate child I you accept, therefore, Diksā at my hands. The Acārya thinking that he had acquired a handsome disciple, took him to his Upāśraya, and
