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CHAPTER ONE
whose limbs were overflowing loveliness and virtue. Ornamented with good qualities, she ornamented three familiesher father's, mother's, and husband's simultaneously, as if she had several forms, though only one.
The king had also a second wife, named Sikhinanditā, delighting the peacock of the heart like a bank of clouds.
In the course of time, Queen Abhinandită, experiencing unbroken sensuous pleasure with her husband, conceived an embryo. She saw in a dream a sun and moon placed in her lap; and her husband said, "You will have a distinguished pair of sons." When the time was completed, Queen Abhinandită bore twin sons, not inferior to the sun and moon in brilliance. King Śrīṣeņa named his two sons Induşena and Binduşeņa at a big festival. Cherished by nurses with great care like flowers, they grew up gradually like extra arms for the king. Then the king had them taught the sciences, grammar, et cetera, by a teacher, like their own names. They became expert in military science and also the other arts, and skilled in the entrance and exit of an army. They both attained youth which purifies the form, the dawn for the blooming of the lotus of the emotion of love.
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Story of Kapila (24-90)
Now there is a very wealthy village, named Acalagrāma, a head-village in the Magadhas in this Bharata. In it there was the crest-jewel of Brahmans, named Dharaṇījata, famous throughout the earth, knowing the four Vedas and their supplements. He had a wife, Yasobhadra, devoted to welfare, well-born, beautiful as a household Lakṣmi. In course of time she bore two sons, lights of the house; the elder, Nandibhūti and the younger, Śrībhūti. The Brahman also had a slave-girl, Kapila, and he enjoyed pleasure with her also for a long time. Verily, the senses are difficult to subdue. To him enjoying her at will in turn, Kapilă bore a son, Kapila.
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