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The Eleventh Anga The Flu
[ I. Lect. 3. Third Lecture. THE STORY OF A BHAGGASENA.
(The Introduction to the Third Lecture, in the usual
terms, is to be inserted here.) 15. Truly, Jambû at that time and at that period there was a town called Purimatāla which was prosperous ( here ihe rest to be supplied ). In the north-easterly direction of that city of l'urimatāla there was a park Amohadamsanı, There, there was the temple of the demigod Amohadamsi. In that city of Purimatāla there was a king named Mahabbala. In the north-easterly direction on the frontier of that city of Purimatāla there was situated a forest-settlement of thieves named Sālā which was situated in a corner of a rugged valley of a mountain, which was encircled by a wall-like fencing of bamboo-nets, which was surrounded by a ditch formed by rugged precipices of hills cut, the places of waters in which were inside (i.e. were not easily accessible), the skirts of which were characterised by scarcity of water, in which there were many passages and by-ways between hills, the entry into ard exit from which was allowed orly to known persons and which was unassailable even by a large number of angry people engaged in preventive service of policemen. In that Sālā, the forest-settlement of thieves, there lived the leader of thieves named Vijaya who was irreligious (here the rest to be
