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still breathing and took it in my arms. Just then the leader of our gang arrived and asked me to take the child to Vindhyasena. I did so, but Vindhyasenā directed me to take the child to
yog."
On hearing this the king accepted the child and named him Apahāravarman. pp. 166-173.
8. Once a sage pre- sented a child to the king and told him as fole lows :
Once a sage presented a child bearing a royal appearance to the king and told him as follows :
“ In the course of my pilgrimage, as I was com ing across a forest after taking bath in the Ganges, I saw at the foot of a caitya tree in a village an old man, who told me that the whole village was affected by plague, and that the inhabitants were trying to find out methods of fighting it. On proceeding a little farther I saw a
" When I went to the forest to collect darbha grass and sacrificial twigs, I saw a wailing old woman. She said that she was the nurse of the child of the kidy of Mithila and, when the latter was overpowered by the hunters, while he was returning after the Magadha-Mālava battle which was fought when he had been to
