॥ दृितॆ॥पदेशः ॥ ४६९ সৈন্যেরার সাৱধান হইয়া সুরক্ষিত শত্ৰুকে ব্যামোহ দিবেক যেহেতুক বাকুল ব্যক্তি অত্যন্ত ব্যাকুল হইয়া ব্যাকুলের সহিষ্ক মিলন করে । রাজা বলিলেন এইরূপ হউক ইহা কহি য়। বিচিত্র নামে বককে অত্যন্ত গুপ্ত লিপি দিয়া সি২ছল দ্বীপে পাঠাইলেন । অনন্তর চর আসিয়া বলিল ছে ভূপাল সে স্থানের প্রস্তাব শুনুন সেখানে গুধু এই প্রকার বলিল । He is always possessed of riches, whose followers are well attached, whose spies are concealed, and whose counsels are kept private; and he who doth not speak with unkindness to his fellow-creatures, may govern the whole world to the extremities of the ocean. But please your highness, continued the minister, although peace has been proposed by that great statesman the vulture, still his master will not consent to it, because of kis recent success. Then let this he done: the king of Singhala-dwipa. the Sarasa Mahabala. is our friend ; iet him raise a disturbance , in Jambu-dwipa, the enemy's country. A wise man having practised great secrecy, marching with a wellcomposed army, may alarm an opponent; and he who is alarmed will make peace with him with whom he hatlı been at variance. The royal goose having consented to this proposal, one Vichitra a booby, was dispatched to Singhala dwipa with a very private letter, In the mean time, the spy returning from the peacock's camp, said, --Please your lighness, attend to what I have to inform you of, The vulture iniuister said to the peacock king, -
