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THE HERMIT'S REQUEST 181
rejoicing take place over the whole earth, but in the heaven
also, in which the gods struck their drums. And the hermit
Tapodhana, who possessed heavenly insight, came there in
person to congratulate that King Merudhvaja. With the
help of that hermit the rejoicing king gave his son the name
Muktaphaladhvaja mentioned by Indra.
Then the hermit departed. But after the lapse of a year
a second son was born to the king by that queen, and the
king, with the help of that hermit, who, in the same way,
came there out of joy, named him Malayadhvaja.
Then Samyataka was born as the son of the king's minister,
in accordance with the curse, and his father gave him the
name of Mahabuddhi. Then those two princes gradually
grew up, like lions' whelps, with that minister's son, and as
they grew their might developed also.
And after eight years only had passed, the hermit
Tapodhana came and invested those princes with the sacred
thread. 1 And during eight more years he instructed them 2
in knowledge, and in the accomplishments, and in the use of
all the mighty weapons. Then King Merudhvaja, seeing that
his sons were young men, able to fight with all weapons,
considered that he had not lived in vain.
Then the hermit was about to return to his hermitage,
but the king said to him :
present you desire." The great sage
" Reverend sir, now take whatever
answered :
" This is
the present I desire from you, King : that, with your sons,
you would slay the Asuras that impede my sacrifices." The
"
king said to him : Then, reverend sir, you must now take
your present. So begin a sacrifice : the Asuras will come to
impede it, and then I will come with my sons. For formerly
those Daityas, after they had treacherously wrought you
wrong, used to fly up into the air, and dive into the sea,
and go to Patala. But now I have two air-going elephants
given me by Indra ; by means of those two I and my sons
will catch them, even if they do fly through the air."
When the hermit heard that he was pleased, and he said
to the king :
" Then do you make in the meantime fit
1 For a note on the sacred thread see Vol. VII, pp. 26-28. n.m.p.
2
Viriiyate is a misprint for viniyete.