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CELANA'S PALACE, DURGANDHA, ÁRDRAKUMARA
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Abhaya, when the Vyantara said this, summoned the carpenter from the forest immediately and said, "Our purpose is accomplished. The Vyantara built the palace just as promised. Demi-gods, bound by a promise, are superior to servants. Abhaya showed the king the one-pillared palace adorned with a perennial garden and the king, delighted, said: "A perennial garden has come into being for me desiring only a palace. Indeed, that is the unexpected occurence of sugar in a drink of milk that has been commenced."
The King of Magadha sent Celaṇā to that place and she adorned it highly like Śri a lotus-pond. Queen Celaṇā worshipped the omniscient with flowers originating in that perennial garden which she herself gathered and arranged. With flowers arranged as soon as she had gathered them, Celaṇā herself, like a slave, filled her husband's abundant hair. So, thinking of the business of the holy Dispassionate One and of her husband, she made the flowers of that garden bear the fruit of religion and love. Celaṇā, like the garden divinity incarnate, made Śreņika sport in that garden which always had flowers and always had fruit.
The charm for taking mangoes (70-126)
One day the wife of a Matanga-chief, who was accomplished in charms and lived in that city, had a pregnancywhim for mangoes develop. She told her husband: Give me mangoes. Satisfy my pregnancy-whim." He said:
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Listen! you are foolish. Where would there be mangoes in the wrong season?" His wife said to the Matanga-chief, Husband, in Celana's garden there is a mango-grove that always has fruit." At once the Matanga went close to Celana's garden and saw the lofty mango trees, always bearing fruit. He came at night and, looking up, looked again at the ripe mangoes, like an astronomer standing on the ground, looking at the constellations. At once he, accomplished in charms, made the tops of the mango trees bend down by means of a charm causing bending and he took mangoes at his pleasure.
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