of Indradatta, which was burned after Vyádi had been hustled out of the temple. In the meanwhile the king was pressing for the payment of the money, but Sakatála, who was still in doubt, said to him, "All the servants have got their heads turned by the public rejoicing, let the Bráhman wait a moment until I can give it." Then Vyádi came and complained aloud in the presence of the supposed Nanda, "Help, help, a Bráhman engaged in magic, whose life had not yet come to an end in a natural way, has been burnt by force on the pretext that his body was untenanted, and this in the very moment of your good fortune." [58] On hearing this the supposed Nanda was in an indescribable state of distraction from grief: but as soon as Indradatta was imprisoned in the body of Nanda, beyond the possibility of escape, by the burning of his body, the discreet Sakatála went out and gave me that ten millions. Then the supposed Nanda, [59] full of grief, said in secret to Vyádi,--"Though a Bráhman by birth I have become a Súdra, what is the use of my royal fortune to me though it be firmly established?" When he heard that, Vyádi comforted him, [60] and gave him seasonable advice, "You have been discovered by Sakatála, so you must henceforth be on your guard against him, for he is a great minister, and in a short time he will, when it suits his purpose, destroy you, and will make Chandragupta, the son of the previous Nanda, king. Therefore immediately appoint Vararuchi your minister, in order that your rule may be firmly established by the help of his intellect, which is of god-like acuteness." When he had said this, Vyádi departed to give that fee to his preceptor, and immediately Yogananda sent for me and made me his minister. Then I said to the king, "Though your caste as a Bráhman has been taken from you, I do not consider your throne secure as long as Sakatála remains in office, therefore destroy him by some stratagem." When I had given him this advice, Yogananda threw Sakatála into a dark dungeon, and his hundred sons with him, [61] proclaiming as his crime that he had burnt a Bráhman alive. One porringer of barley-meal and one of water was placed inside the dungeon every day for Sakatála and his sons, and thereupon he said to them;--"My sons, even one man alone would with difficulty subsist on this barley-meal, much less can a number of people do so. Therefore let that one of us, who is able to take vengeance on Yogananda, consume every day the barley-meal and the water." His sons answered him, "You alone are able to punish him, therefore do you consume them." For vengeance is dearer to the resolute than life itself. So Sakatála alone subsisted on that meal and water every day. Alas! those whose souls are set on victory are cruel. Sakatála in the dark dungeon, beholding the death agonies of his starving sons, thought to himself, "A man who desires his own welfare should not act in an arbitrary manner towards