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she had done when she first saw him. They spent some time together enjoying the pleasures of senses.
By sheer accident Brahmadatta met his old friend Varadhanu who explained to him how on the earlier occasion they had missed each other. As Varadhanu was fetching water for the hungry and thirsty Brahmadatta he was surprised by king Dirgha's men to whose queries his reply was Brahmadatta was killed by a tiger; with the help of a magic pill he had with him, Varadhanu fell unconscious and Dirgha's soldiers left him alone presuming him to be dead. Then he met a religious man who told him of his father's death and of his mother's humiliation in being lodged in candāla locality. He therefore went to Kāmpilyapura in disguise and managed to get his mother out of that place and bring her to a comfortable residence. Now he was out in search of Brahmadatta. The two friends decided to run away from their present place since Dirgha's soldiers were still combing that forest. They went away to a village called Kausambi where they felt fascinated by a cock-fight put up by two villagers Sägaradatta and Buddhila against a heavy bet. Varadhanu noticed that some one there was resorting to cheating and when he inspected the cocks he realised that Buddhila's cock had son fine needles fixed to his feet which quite scared Sagaradatta's cock though he was of a fine bred. When Buddhila saw that his trickery was detected by Varadhanu he offered him half the money of the bet but Varadhanu secretly managed to convey Buddhila's trickery to Sagaradatta who cleverly removed the needles from Buddhila's cock's feet and in the final round his cock won.
Sagaradatta invited Varadhanu and Brahmadatta to his place. While they were there Varadhanu received a bamboo-box in which he found a pretty looking pearl necklace which was approximately half in price of the amount of the bet which Buddhila had won in the cock fight. To the necklace was stuck a letter which was addressed to Brahmadatta. It was from Buddhila's sister Ratnavati who it seems had fallen desperately in love with Brahmadatta whom she had seen at the cock fight but the two friends were not in a position to stay on in the town since the king of the town was under instructions from Dirgha to arrest them and so with Sāgaradatta's
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