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'He will go to heaven,' and said, 'Well done! Well done!' Vasu and Parvataka returned later and said, 'We killed the cocks where no one could see.' The guru reviled them, 'O wretches, you saw in the first place; the Khecaras, et cetera saw. Why were the cocks killed?' The idea of teaching forgotten because of that pain, the teacher thought: 'My trouble in teaching Vasu and Parvata was wasted. The teaching of the guru develops here according to the recipient. Rain-water becomes pearls or brine according to the difference in place. My son Parvataka is dear to me; Vasu is dearer than a son even. They will go to hell. So enough for me of being a householder.' From disgust with existence at these thoughts, the teacher became a mendicant then and Parvata sat at his feet, expert on occasion of exposition. As I had become expert in all the sciences by favor of the guru, I returned to my own place then.
CHAPTER TWO
Abhicandra, the moon of kings, took the vow at the proper time and then Vasu became king, equal to Vasudeva in splendor. He acquired a reputation through the world, 'He tells the truth,' and he spoke only the truth in order to protect his reputation.
Then one day a hunter, who was deer-hunting, shot an arrow and it stumbled on the intervening slope of the Vindhya. He went to find out the reason for the arrow's stumbling on it and, touching it with his hand, found it was atmospheric crystal. He thought: 'I think I saw the deer moving somewhere else reflected in this, like the shadow of the earth reflected in the moon. Unless you touch it, this is not observed at all. Surely this is suitable to give to King Vasu.' The hunter went to the king secretly and told him about the stone. The king accepted it with delight and gave him much money. He (the king) had a base for his throne made from it in secret and had the artisans killed. For kings are subject to no one. The king of Cedi's lion-throne was set on this base and the people believed that it stood in the air from the power of
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