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CHAPTER CXV
170. Story of King Brahmadatta and the Swans
THEN King Brahmadatta said to those celestial
"
swans : How did Muktaphalaketu kill that Vidyuddhvaja
? And how did he pass through the
state of humanity inflicted on him by a curse, and regain
Padmavati ? Tell me this first, and afterwards you shall
carry out your intentions." When those * birds heard this,
they began to relate the story of Muktaphalaketu as follows :
170b. Muktaphalaketu and Padmavati
Once on a time there was a king of the Daityas named
Vidyutprabha, hard for gods to conquer. He, desiring a son,
went to the bank of the Ganges, and with his wife performed
asceticism for a hundred years to propitiate Brahma. And
by the favour of Brahma, who was pleased with his asceticism,
that enemy of the gods obtained a son named
Vidyuddhvaja, who was invulnerable at their hands.
That son of the king of the Daityas, even when a child,
was of great valour ; and one day, seeing that their town was
guarded on all sides by troops, he said to one of his companions
:
"
Tell me, my friend, what have we to be afraid of,
that this town is guarded on all sides by troops ? " Then his
"
companion said to him : We have an adversary in Indra,
the king of the gods ; and it is on his account that this
system of guarding the town is kept up. Ten hundred
thousand elephants, and fourteen hundred thousand chariots,
and thirty thousand horsemen, and a hundred millions of
footmen guard the city in turn for one watch of the night,
and the turn of guarding comes round for every division in
seven years."
evam.
1 It appears from the India Office MSS. that tav should be inserted after
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