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hundred Brahmin boys, eight hundred Kshatriya boys, eight hundred Vais'ya boys and eight hundred S'udra boys and used to get their hearts to be taken out while they were alive, and, thus gave offerings for the well-being of king Jiyasattu; and then that enemy's army was either forthwith routed or repulsed.
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25. Then that family priest Mahesardatta whose actions were of this type (here the rest to be supplied §§ 5-6) having accumulated great sin and having lived his long life of thirty hundred years and having met with death at the timeof surcease was re-born in the hell in the fifth region, the maximum duration of life where is seventeen Sagarovamas. Then having afterwards come out of it he was re-born as the son of the family priest Somadatta by his wife Vasudattā in this very city of Kosambî. Then the parents of that boy after his completing the twelfth day after his birth gave him this name of the following description: "Because this our boy is the son of the family priest Somadatta by his wife Vasudattā therefore let our son be 'Bahassaidatta' by name." Then that boy Bahassaidatta being nursed by five nurses (here the rest to be supplied § 12, down to) began to grow up. Then that Bahassaidatta completed his boyhood, attained to youth, became educated and attained to maturity of age to be able to enjoy pleasures of life. He was a dear boy-friend of the prince Udayana, who was born
