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fee also was given to him with the object of saving his life. Then Namuci went to Hastinapura after his escape and Cakrin Sanatkumāra made him his minister.
Now Citra and Sambhūta had just become grown, like the Aśvins who had come to earth for some reason. They sang a sweet song, putting Hāhā and Hūhū 307 to shame; and they played the lute better than Tumburu and Narada. When they played the lute with seven very clear notes accompanied by vocal compositions, the Kinnaras became their servants. Playing a drum (muraja) with a deep sound, they gave an imitation of Kṛṣṇa with a drum made from Mura's skeleton. They acted a play which Śiva, Śiva, Urvasi, Rambhā, Muñjakeśin (Viṣṇu), and Tillotamā did not know. Whose mind did they not capture, displaying an unprecedented wealth of all the musical arts, magic for every one?
One day a festival of Madana took place in this city and choruses of townsmen, skilled in concerts, set out in it. A chorus of Citra and Sambhuta set out there and the townsmen, drawn by their song like deer, went to that same place. Some one told the king, "All the people in the city have been made impure like themselves by these Mātangas, who have attracted them by song." The king ordered the superintendent of the city reproachfully, Admission to the city is never to be given them." From that time they stayed at a distance from Vārāņasi.
One day the important festival of Kārttikeya took place there. Transgressing the king's command from irresponsibility, they entered the city like bees the side of an elephant's temple.308 With their entire bodies veiled, they roamed through the city, looking at the festival, very secretly like thieves. Then they were caused to sing very loud by the songs of the townsmen, like a jackal by the cry of jackals. Fate can not be crossed. The two Matangas were surrounded by the young people of
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