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phant dung. Udena immediately mounted his elephant and started 

 out in pursuit. Candapajjota posted an ambuscade. Udena tried to 

 charm the wooden elephant by twanging his lute and uttering spells, 

 but the wooden elephant paid no attention to him, and only made off 

 faster than ever. Udena, unable to keep up with the wooden elephant, 

 mounted his horse, left his army behind, and started out alone. 

 Thereupon he was drawn into the ambuscade and captured. (192-3) 



Candapajjota kept Udena in prison for three days, and then offered 

 to release him if Udena would divulge the charm. " I will do so," 

 said Udena, "provided you will pay me homage." "That I will not 

 do," replied Candapajjota ; " but will you divulge it to another, if the 

 other will pay you homage 1 " " Yes." " Well then, there is a hunch- 

 backed woman in this house ; I will have her sit inside a curtain ; you 

 remain outside and teach her the charm." "Very well." Canda- 

 pajjota then went to his daughter, the beautiful Princess Vasuladatta, 

 and said to her, " There is a leper who knows a priceless charm ; you 

 sit inside a curtain ; he will remain outside, and teach you the charm ; 

 then tell me what it is." (Candapajjota employed this stratagem to 

 protect his daughter's chastity.) (193-4) 



One day Udena repeated the charm over and over again to Vasula- 

 datta, but the latter was unable to reproduce it correctly. Thereupon 

 Udena lost his patience, and cried out, " What 's the matter with you, 

 you thick-lipped hunchback 1 " Vasuladatta retorted angrily, " How 

 dare you speak thus? do I look like a hunchback?" Udena raised 

 the curtain, and immediately they both knew why Candapajjota had 

 deceived them. Vasuladatta yielded her chastity to Udena ; and after 

 that there were no more lessons. The king frequently asked his 

 daughter, " How are you getting along with your lessons 1 " and always 

 received the answer, "Very well." (194-5) 



One day Udena said to Vasuladatta, " If you will save my life, I will 

 make you queen-consort and provide you with five hundred ladies-in- 

 waiting." " Very well," replied Vasuladatta ; and she went and said to 

 her father, " Father, in order that I may perfect myself in this charm, 

 it will be necessary for me to dig a certain medicinal root in the dead 

 of night at a time indicated by the stars ; therefore please have one 

 door left open, and put an elephant at my disposal." (195-6) 



(Now King Candapajjota, in consequence of having bestowed alms 

 on a Private Buddha in a previous existence as a slave, was possessed 

 of the five conveyances : a female elephant, which could travel 50 

 leagues a day ; a slave, who could travel 60 leagues ; two horses, 100 

 leagues ; and an elephant named Nalagiri, 120 leagues.) (196-8) 



One day, when Candapajjota was absent, Udena filled several big 



