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# Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/101/) — Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play for another's head; and after that he took a fresh mango branch, and the new-born babe, and placing them on a golden dish gave them to Rasalu.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/102/) — Now, as he left the palace, carrying with him the new-born babe and the mango branch, he met a band of prisoners, and they called out to him,
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/103/) — "A royal hawk art thou, oh King! the rest But timid wild-fowl.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/104/) — Grant us our request,-- Unloose these chains, and live for ever blest!"
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/105/) — And Raja Rasalu hearkened to them, and bade King Sarkap set them at liberty.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/106/) — Then he went to the Murti Hills, and placed the new-born babe, Kokilan, in an underground palace, and planted the mango branch at the door, saying, "In twelve years the mango tree will blossom; then will I return and marry Kokilan."
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/107/) — And after twelve years, the mango tree began to flower, and Raja Rasalu married the Princess Kokilan, whom he won from Sarkap when he played chaupur with the King.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/108/) — The Ass in the Lion's Skin
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/109/) — At the same time, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, the future Buddha was born one of a peasant family; and when he grew up, he gained his living by tilling the ground.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/110/) — At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/111/) — Now at each place he came to, when he took the pack down from the ass's back, he used to clothe him in a lion's skin, and turn him loose in the rice and barley fields.
- [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/112/) — And when the watchmen in the fields saw the ass, they dared not go near him, taking him for a lion.

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