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CHAPTER ELEVEN him beverages mixed with Candrahāsa wine to drink. Afte. he had eaten and risen, the son of Śreņika immediately went to sleep. Verily, sleep is the first companion of wine-drinking. She, the home of deceit hard to detect, sent him to Avanti in a chariot, and in other chariots that had been stationed at intervals. At that time, searchers came there, hunting here and there, who had been ordered by Sreņika to look for Abhaya. “ Has Abhaya come here ?,” they asked her, and she said, “ Abhaya came here, but went away at once.” Believing what she said, the searchers went elsewhere.
By means of horses stationed in relays, she arrived in Avanti, where she delivered the furious Abhaya to Candapradyota, and declared the true nature of the stratagem for bringing Abhaya. To her Pradyota said, “You did not do well, since by means of a religious trick you captured him who had confidence in religion”; and to Abhaya he said, “You, although knowing niti and well versed in the seventy stories, 210 were caught by her like a parrot by a cat." Abhaya replied, “You are very clever, whose royal duties prosper by this kind of cleverness.” Ashamed and angry, King Caņdapradyota cast Abhaya, like a rājahansa, into a wooden cage.
Now, a chariot named Agnibhiru, queen Sivā, an elephant Nalagiri, and a messenger Lohajangha, are the jewels of his (Pradyota's) kingdom. The king sent Lohajangha to Bhțgukaccha very often, and the people there, exhausted by his coming and going, made the following plan. “ This man comes twenty-five yojanas in a day, talks to us211 frequently. So now we will kill him.” Having made this plan, they put poisoned sweetmeats in his food, and took away all the other food that was in the bag. After he had gone a certain distance on the road, he stopped on a river bank
This has 72 storics.
210 170. This probably refers to the Sukasaptati. Hertel thinks the original author was a Jain.
211 175. I. e. gives orders.
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