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$$ 5–6.) Vivāgasuyam.
13 very far nor very near from that city of Sayaduvāra in the south-easterly direction there was a town called Vijayavaddhamāṇa which was prosperous, free from fear and happy. That town of Vijayavaddhamāṇa had an extent of five hundred villages. In that town of Vijayavaddhamana there was a governor named Ikkāî who wis nonreligious (here the remaining epithets to be supplieutdown to) and difficult to be pleased. That. governor Ikkāî enjoyed the lordship of those fivehundred villages of the town of Vijayavaddhamāra. (here the rest to be supplied down to ) and protected it.
Then, that Ikkāi used to torture, kill, threaten, whip, and deprive of their wealth the five hundred villages of the town of Vijayavaddhamāva by means of levying upon them the burden of taxes, custom duties, intei est, bribes, insults, compulsory contributions, punitive taxes, extorting money at the point of: sword, supporting thieves, setting fire, and waylaying travellers.
Then that governor Ikkāî in spite of his hearing many kings, courtiers village-officers, heads of families, rich persons, merchants and many other leading gentlemen of the city with regard to many works, causes, consultations, secrets, resolutions, and worldly transactions, used to say deliberately that he did not hear them; similarly in the case of seeing, speaking, talking knowing etc.
