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Agadadatta as a student in his establishment and he settled down with great zeal and devotion. His resentment against his father was forgotten and a new sense of purpose arose in his mind. Pavanacanda's house had a big garden around it and in this garden Agadadatta practised his martial skills.
A rich merchant's house was on the other side of the garden and his daughter Madanamañjari saw him daily and fell in love with him but he was aware of nothing but his own studies. One day however the girl became impatient and threw a bunch of flowers at him to draw his attention to herself. He was surprised to see that he had not noticed so far such a charming young woman living so close by. In their first meeting only she confessed to him her fascination for him and told him she could not live any longer without making love to him. She also said that she was married to a young man living in the same town but she was for the time being living with her father. The young prince told her that it would not be before the end of the course of his studies that he would satisfy her desire. The next day he was riding a fine looking horse and was on the road in front of her house when there arose a big uproar on the road, every one was running helter skelter and Agadadatta saw a mad elephant running amuck on the road. He decided to tackle the wild beast. He rolled up his upper garment into a ball and threw it in front of the elephant who felt more furious and started attacking the ball and prince started attacking the elephant on his rear. The ball rolled on and the elephant ran after it. Agadadatta made him run round and round till he was tired and Agadadatta jumped on his back and managed to calm him down. As this was going on, lots of
und there and even the king of the town came and was greatly impressed by what Agadadatta was doing. When the elephant was brought under perfect control and Agadadatta was comfortable on his back, the king called him and praised his bravery. Agadadatta felt much embarrassed by the king's flattering attention which the king felt was the natural modesty of the young man. He was more pleased with Agadadatta and his behaviour and got all the information about him from his teacher. Just at that moment, a group of persons rushed up before the king with their story of distress. They said a bandit had been pestering them and
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