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 2 iS THE INDIAN AlfnQtJARY. [£rmum. i^lil towards the conn try whore there was no king, Turi wept wry much at the tfa Of leaving hut younger brother in if fur wuut of water, and i cloth he i „|r in W ftmaii pieces and throw i dawn to mark the road, and wiled on all the gods ro protect his brother ; and all Lhu tints too eloplnal oMitinnad to take him away. In Lhn nu-.mrmio Basanta wondered why hii brother did not return, and began to t luok must have killed him. Awl so he mm bout eight hoars, hut still hia broth, come; and he lamented hia ill fate, not knowing, all alone in that jungle, hut in what direction to go, but he doteraiin. ii M Bud find hi* brother m alt hazard*. So bo started on hie way crying, * Brother, brother '," all thmnglr the forest, bnt as the elephant wag taking him away to be a king Tori could giro no answer. In the course uf his search Musanta came on the foot* tops of his brother and the I nicks of tho elephant, and could not help thinking that the beast must have killed him. A Jittfo way iurtiiur on ho found the piece* of cloth; he did not understand that his brother had t ' them down i- b« way, but thought the elephant after killing' Mm must have torn Inn clothes to piece*. Now tho elephant had arrived with Tun in the country whore there was no king, and all the peoptn turned out to aee their new ruhr, — women, youths, old men, all assembled to greet him, sad prepared sweetmeats, p&n, hctolnnt, 00, Incense, <ihi, and lighted candles, and filled* put:, of earth and bra?* with water, and put them before him, and, wishing hi*, pines* and prosperity, prostrated themselves bo- Ibm him. Tnri was so pleased to find that the ■ t taken hi in away I ,, f hut - and give Iran met n am-raiibj, tW bo goi to forgot bis hr was loll in thr. jungle, and ho began to sit in court every day, and wu* jo* | iroftbl ; ailA in this way s month passed by, till Bum at a, traokiitir hk way by the piece* of cloth, earneto bin brathor's capital. As ho bad not eaten ft* , h» was very thin, and dirty besides, nr clothe* bo iron tho bark ofa tn-«- : tmtl standing at tho door of the pahuw, ho asked tho porter* wl, had heard or seen any t 1, fag of liia brotherTnri, TtaywsrasA wuchdjspl. ot hearing their king spoken of in euch a way that the jemadar ordered the others to beat him with a cane. He ookod tht-ir hand* and fr* implored I horn not to beat him ai hi. uud told the king that then a madman standing at the gate, and asked what wan to lie done with him. The kingordrmd lum to be put in jail. So Basanta war. taken awn thrown blO prison, where he remained a long iiiil hethonght he must be feted soen all ihtas Hardships, and, as ha expneted to die soon, ho was OODStsmtly pnijing to God. One day a merchant who lived in that plnco deter. i to go and trade, end he attempted to his empty boat from the rivcr-bank into the water, hut con hi not move it; two or three hundred mnn Bun tried, ha: VI not get it in; tnn elephants pushed Ft, bcl not manage it. nmr „ ing what to do, told the king all abnnt it, and how he had been informed in a dream that if be offered a human sacrifice the boat would move, and he awked thr- king to giro him a man for the purpose. The king, not knowing it wos his younger brother, ordered themadtaan to bo given him : 6o the sen-ants gave Basan mer- who took him away to sacrifice Lim. Bawmtn ivus mneh distressed to hear it, and told the merchant thathn wanld drag the host it I he water, and tho merchati ; 1 not to kill him if he could do it 80 Basanta want to tho boat and said, " If I am a trne man, move, and be thought on God and pn1 bia hand on the boat, and, as soon as h i', it went water. When thu merchant ■aw ir. In thought Bsosnta m»n hi be no common -whi. no he invited him to go with lum to trade, thinking that he would be nseful if ihtj cams to any ltjrv (he >, n tmy at rang. 86 h rhi lioat withmerchar taking litmmtu with him, went to try to btsl When be arrived at tin place, he fa<< liis boat to the bank and went to ahor Iil0langofth*i coantry had a very bentnifnl danghtei- whom ha wished to marry :' - "" r ' • ' - tags in nmny dHTercnl conn- i and there WR,tt The la to the king to sell his {poods, ■ i.,ld I no tim* to hmk at tl bnt would do ho in two days" i . thr- marriage. So tho inurchant agreed to remain.