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Then, followed by the village-chief, he went gradually to Rājagțha. He left Ratnavatī at a hermitage outside the city. Entering the city, he saw two girls, just grown, standing at a window of a palace, like Rati and Prīti in person. They said to him: “When you went away at that time, abandoning people devoted to you, does that appear fitting to you?” The prince said, “Oh! What devoted persons and when were they abandoned? Who am I and who are you?” “ Please come and rest, lord.” And Brahmadatta entered their house, as well as their hearts, as they made such conversation. Remaining, they related their own true story to Brahman's son who had a bath and a meal.
“There is a mountain, Vaitādhya by name, the abode of Vidyādharas, made of slabs of silver, like a tilaka of the earth. In the city. Sivamandira in its southern row there is a king, Jvalanaśikha, lika Guhyaka in Alakā. There is a wife, Vidyucchikā, of the Vidyādhara-lord, like lightning (the wife) of a cloud, by whose brilliance the surface of the sky is lighted. We are their daughters, dearer than life, named Khanda and Viśākhā, younger sisters of a son, Nāțyonmatta.
One day our father, as he was talking with a friend, Agniśikha, in his palace, saw gods going through the air to Mt. Aştāpada. Then he set out on a pilgrimage to holy places and made us and his friend Agniśikha go. For he would endow him, beloved, with dharma. When we arrived at Aştāpada, we saw the statues made of jewels of the
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