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his playmates.
In the course of time, two other sons of Queen Celaṇā, Halla and Vihalla, were born, suns to the lotus of her heart. Celaṇā's three sons were always in the company of the king, like visible embodiments of excellence of treasure and army, good counsel, and energy.161 The mother always sent sweetmeats of molasses to Kūņika, his father's enemy, but sweetmeats of refined sugar to Halla and Vihalla. Kūņika, spoiled by karma of a former incarnation, always thinking, "Srenika has this done, reached middle age.
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One day Śrenika, affectionately disposed, married Princess Padmavati to Kūņika with a great festival.
And now there was an embryo of Dhariņi from Śreņika, indicated by a dream of an elephant and he caused a pregnancywhim of roaming in the rain. At the king's order it was fulfilled by Abhaya who prayed to a deity. Then she bore a son named Meghakumāra.
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Now, in the past a Brahman began to make the Somasacrifice. He employed a slave in that and the slave said to him: "If you give me the remains of the sacrifice, then I will stay; not otherwise. The Brahman agreed to that and the slave stayed in the sacrificial compound. The slave always gave the remains of the sacrifice that he received to sadhus and by the power of that he acquired the status of a god. After death he went to heaven. The slave's jiva fell from heaven and become Śreņika's son, Nandişeņa, but the Brahman wandered through many kinds of births.
Now in a certain forest there was a lord of the herd in a large herd of elephants that was like a son of an elephant of the quarters in strength. There must not be any lover in his prime of this herd of cows. With this idea he killed every young male as soon as it was born.
One day the Brahman's soul descended into the womb of a cow belonging to this herd and she, pregnant, thought,
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