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are forty common dreams," &c. Cjust as the Brahman before had said). After this announcement had been made to her, the noble Trišalá unhesitatingly received what had been declared to her, and, having paid the King due reverence with joined hands, took her departure, and went to her own apartments.
From the day that the venerable ascetic Mahávíra took up his abode in the royal family, Kuvera, with all the hosts of earth's inhabiting gods, called Trimbaka, under his command, had orders from Sakra to search every place where treasure was likely to be, and, when they had found any, to carry it to the house of Siddhartha ; namely, to search out treasures of which the owners or guardians were dead, and the families to which they belonged had become extinct, or of which the owners or guardians and families to which they belonged had emigrated, and been long absent from the
debate carried on between him and the Southern Pandit. "0," said Ganga, "he first held up one finger, twitting mewith having only one eye; I held up two, as much as to say, You have two now, but take care that I do not knock out one of them; he then stretched out his hand, as I understood it, threatening to give me a slap on the face: I then in a rage clenched my fist, thus bidding him take care that I did not knock out his teeth." The King and his courtiers, after enjoying a hearty laugh, Jismissed the oilman with many presents.
