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Bhojaprabandha 63_186

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63_186

The king gave a hundred thousand coins.
Then, while the king was delighting in the hunt, a certain son of a Pulinda sang. Pleased by the sweetness of his song, the king gave that son of a Pulinda five hundred thousand. Thereupon the poet, seeing that gift to be exceedingly high and the youth to be a mountaineer, spoke to the king under the guise of the lotus held in the ruler of men's lotus hand: