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ihg thirfty, and quitting his attendants, repaired with 

 Sqcafara to a beautiful re/cr-voir, under a large fpread- 

 ing tree, near a cave in the hills, called Patalcandird, 

 or the paflage leading to the infernal regions ; there 

 Saeatara flung the old man into the tefervoir^ and 

 threw a large itone upon him. In the evening he 

 returned to the imperial city, bringing back the king's 

 horfc, and reported, that his maiter had quitted his 

 attendants and rode into the forcft ; what was be- 

 come of him he knew not, but. he had found his horfe 

 grazing under a tree. Some days after Sacatara, with 

 Vacrdnara, one of the fecretaries of irate, placed 

 Ugradhanvoa, one of the younger fons of Nanda, on 

 the throne. 



The young king being diftatisfied with Sarafara's 

 account of his father's difappearance, fet about farther 

 enquiries during the minifter's abfence, but thefe 

 proving as little iatisfacTtory, he afiembled the principal 

 perfons of his court, and threatened them all with death, 

 if, in three days, they failed to bring him certain in- 

 telligence what was become of his father. This menace 

 jucceeded, for, on the fourth day, they reported, that 

 Sara/ara had murdered the old king, and that his re- 

 mains where concealed under a itone in the refervoif 

 near Pa$alcandra$ Ugradkanwa immediately fent peo - 

 pie with camels, who returned in the evening, with 

 the body and the itone that had covered it. Sacafard 

 confciied the murder, and was thereupon condemned 

 to be iliut up with his family in a narrow room, the 

 door of which was walled up, and a fmall opening only 

 left- for the conveyance of their Icanty allowance. "They 

 all died in a ihort time, except the youngefc fon Vica* 

 tar a, whom the young king ordered to be releafed, 

 and took into his fervice. But Vicatara meditated 

 revenge; and the king having directed him to call fome 

 Brahman to affitt at the fraddha he was going to 



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