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Jimutvahana. He was full of compassion for all living beings. He spoke to his father and asked the wishing tree to banish poverty and give wealth to men. Then the tree sent gold showers on the earth and all men rejoiced. The fame of Jimutvahana extended far and wide. Even king Jimutaketu filled with hatred as the throne was firmly fixed by his son's glory. They wanted to seize the place where a wishing tree grows, bent on war. Then Jimutvahana gave up fighting for Thorne with relatives and left the forest with his father and mother for the Malaya mountains. This was the place of Siddha, the prince. He wished to marry his sister Malayavati with Jimutvahana and Jimutvahana married her. In the past life, Jimutvahana was Vidyadhara and Malayavati was his wife. Once he saw a woman crying. The son of women, Sankhchuda, tells him that they are
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