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JEE
 
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॥ श्रीः ॥

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THE STORY OF THE DELIVERANCE

OF THE ELEPHANT-KING
 
SL
 

 
आसीद्गिरिवरो [राजन्] त्रिकूट इति विश्रुतः ।

तस्मिन्सरस्सुविपुलं शोभितं वीतीरजैर्द्रुमैः
 

There was an excellent mountain well-

known as Trikuta. On it there was a

vast lake beautiful with the trees grown

on its banks.
 

 
तत्रैकदा तद्गिरिकाननाश्रयः

करेणुभिर्वारणयूथपश्चरन् ।

वृतस्स्वयूथेन तृषार्दितेन तत्-

सरोवराभ्याशमथागमद् द्रुतम् ।
 

There, the leader of an elephant-herd,
of
the forests
that

which lived in
the forests of that
mountain, was once roving about with

female elephants; surrounded by its herd

afflicted with thirst, it then ran up to the

neighbourhood of that excellent lake.