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them for their vain pride, as neither of them earned wealth by his own exertions. Dharana proposed that both of them should undertake a journey for business and that the chariot of one who earned more wealth within a year, should pass through the gate first on the same day of the next year. Devanandi agreed to this. The document was.drawn up, duly signed and deposited in the store-house of the town. They were furnished with goods worth five lacs of Dināras each, They started taking their caravans with them. Their wives also accompanied them. (P. 8 I. 17.)
On the way, Dharana saw a young Vikyūdhara named Hemakundala jumping up and falling down. Dharana approached and asked him the reason. He narrated the account:
Once upon a time, a Vidyadhara named Vidyunmālin came to his father from the Vindhya mountain, On the way, he passed through Ujjains where he met with an occurrence which distressed him very much. He narrated the story of the occurrence to the father of Hemakundala.
There was a king named S'riprabha in
