Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.437

c8.437

Māṇikyavācakar reached Madura and informed the King that the horses would arrive at the palace on the day Avaṇi-mūla (Mūla star in the month of Śrāvaṇa) and presented the king with the ruby which his Guru had given him. The king was not satisfied and he imprisoned him. On the Avaṇi-mūla day at the stipulated time the horses arrived at the palace. The horses were led by strange foreigners. It was Śrī Parameśvara himself who had come as the chief of the horsemen. Māṇikyavācakar was released from jail and he also came to see the horses. The King gave the leader of the troopers a silk shawl as present. The head of the troopers received it by the end of his whip. The King resented this but the troopers went back without any trouble. The horses were put in stables and Māṇikyavācakar went to his āśrama.