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CHAPTER CXIII
WHEN Naravahanadatta, on the Black Mountain,
[M] had thus taken away the virtuous Suratamanjari
from his brother-in-law, Ityaka, who had
carried her off, and had reprimanded him, and had given
her back to her husband, and was sitting in the midst of the
"
There
hermits, the sage Kasyapa came and said to him :
never was a king and there never will be an emperor like
you, since you do not allow passion and other feelings of the
kind to influence your mind when you are sitting on the
seat of judgment. Fortunate are they who ever behold such
a righteous lord as you are ; for, though your empire is such
as it is, no fault can be found with you.
" There were in former days Rishabha, and other emperors,
and they, being seized with various faults, were ruined, and fell
from their high state. Rishabha, and Sarvadamana, and the
third Bandhujivaka, all these, through excessive pride, were
punished by Indra. And the Vidyadhara prince, Jimutavahana,
when the sage Narada came and asked him the reason
of his obtaining the rank of emperor, told him how he gave
away the wishing-tree and his own body, 1 and thus he fell
from his high position by revealing his own virtuous deeds.
And the sovereign named Visvantara, who was emperor
here, he too, when his son, Indivaraksha, had been slain by
Vasantatilaka, the King of Chedi, for seducing his wife, being
wanting in self-control, died on account of the distracting
sorrow which he felt for the death of his wicked son.
" But Taravaloka alone, who was by birth a mighty
human king, and obtained by his virtuous deeds the imperial
sovereignty over the Vidyadharas, long enjoyed the high
fortune of empire, without falling into sin, and at last abandoned
it of his own accord, out of distaste for all worldly
pleasures, and went to the forest. Thus, in old times, did
most of the Vidyadhara emperors, puffed up with the attain-
1 See Vol. II, p. 138 et seq. t and Vol. VII, pp. 49-63. n.m.p.
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