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CHAPTER TWO Eager to watch quarrels, interested in singing and dancing, he was always very devoted to bad conduct and talkativeness about love. The creator of peace and dissension between heroes and lovers, with an umbrella under his arm and his mat in his hand, elevated on shoes, because he had been reared by the gods Nārada became known on earth as a god-rși, a celibate in general 124 and doing as he pleased."
Conquest of Mathură (515-550) When the Lord of Lankā had told this, Marutta asked his forgiveness for the sin arising from the sacrifice which was made because of his own ignorance. Then King Marutta gave his daughter, Kanakaprabhā, to Daśāsya, and Daśāsya married her. Destroyer of Marutta's sacrifice, strong like the wind, he went then to the city Mathurā, very powerful. Its king, Harivāhana, came to Daśagrīva with his son Madhu, who had a spear, like Iśāna. Daśakandhara, delighted, talked with him who was standing near with devotion and asked him, "Where did your son get this spear for a weapon?” Madhu, instructed by his father by a gesture of his eye-brow, replied gently:
“This was given to me by the Indra Camara, my friend in a former birth. Camara said: 'In the continent Dhātakikhanda in Airāvataksetra in the large city Śatadvāra there were a prince, Sumitra, and a boy of good family, Prabhaya. They were friends like Vasanta and Madana. In childhood they learned the arts under one teacher and they played together as inseparable as the two Aśvins. When they had grown up, Sumitra became king in that city and he made Prabhava very magnificent like himself.
One day the king's horse ran away with him and went to a large forest; and the king married the daughter of the head of a village in it. The king returned to his
124 514. I.e., he was a celibate, but did not observe all the details of the strict celibacy of monks.
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