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city. After Prasenajit had explained his purpose, Bimbisara said,
"How can I ask anyone of them to go and settle in your kingdom? They are after all free agents".
Prasenajit - 'But I am not moving out from here till my purpose is fulfilled".
Bimbis ara held consultation with his minister who gave advice as follows:
''To ask any one of the big five to go is as difficult as to shake the earth. So it is not worth trying. A comparatively easier job may be to induce Dhananjaya, son of Mendake, to migrate, and if he agrees, that will be equally good".
Bimbisāra sent for Dhananjaya. When Dhananjaya came, he said to him,
"'The King of Kos'ala has come to invite you to the position of a Sreşthi in his kingdom. The offer is open. Are you agreeable to it"?
Very humbly did Dhananjaya submit,
"Your Majesty! If that be your pleasure, I must abide by it".
The king became very happy to hear this reply. He said,
"Very nice. Then you get ready to go".
Dhananjaya made necessary preparations, and came back ready to depart. Bimbisāra welcomed him and handed him over to Pras enajit as a gift unto him. The King of Kos'ala was very much delighted and obliged to receive him, and taking Dhananjaya with him, he started for his own capital Srāvasti. Having spent a night on the way, they were now in the vicinity of the capital which was no more than seven yojanas from that place. Dhananjaya said to the king,
