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Then at another time, the doorkeeper bowed and said to Bhoja: "O king, a poet named Lakṣmīdhara has arrived from the Dravidian country and is present at the door." The king said: "Bring him inside." As soon as he entered, looking upon him shining like the sun, someone whose circumstances had long been unknown, the king began to reflect and said: "Blessed are those men who never hear the plaintive speech of petitioners, but understanding everything merely by observing their appearance, fulfill the desires of supplicants."