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| The King returned to the city and went to the palace. At the door of the palace,he paused for an instant and thought about what the Goddess Mani Mekhalahad told him at the moment she picked him up from the sea. The King could not remember the exact words, fot he was exhausted and drowsy from the seven-day swimming in the briny water, but he knew that she had said he would not find the path to absolute happiness woth out sharing the wisdom he had found in the ocean. Mani Mekhala had told him to establish an institute of high learning called the Pudalay Mahavijjalaya. Once he had fulfilled this mission, he could find the path to peaceful retirement. The Great Being thought:"Each one, may he be a trader, a farmer, a King, or a priest, has his duty to do. Anyway, before anything else, we have to find a way to revive teh fruitful mango tree." So he summoned the chief minister and told him: "Go and invite the Brahmin to come here, together with a couple of his disciples." |
| Udiochabrahmana Mahasala promptly came, along with two disciples, Charutejobrahmana and Gajendra Singha Pandit. Of there two , the first mentioned was an expert in planting, the second one an expert in uprooting. The moment they arrived, Gajendra Singha Pandit threw himself at the feet of the King and said: "Your humble servant is at fault ; when the courtiers asked me to pick mangoes for the Viceroy, I used my new automatic fruit harvester, unwitting that it would uproot the mango tree. Your Majesty!" The KIng said:" Do not despair, my good inventine man. The mango tree is down already. Now thw problem is : how to restore the mango tree to its former state. We have a methods for this; some of these could be usable. First: culturing the seeds; second: nursing the root ao they grew again; Third: culturing(cutting) the branches; fourth:grafting in the other tree; fifth: bud grafting on the other tree; sixth: splicing (approach grafting) the branches; seventh: layering the branches; eight: smoking the fruitless tree , so that it bear fruit; ninth: culturing the cells in a container. Brahmana Mahasala, pray order your two disciples to study the problem and do the implementation." Udiochabrahmana acknowledged the royal order by saying :" Your Eminent Majesty, Gajendra sigha will immediately bring the machine to raise the tree to its upright station. And Charutejo will collect the seeds and the branches to act as by the royal initiatire." The King ordered the two to hasten on their way, but bade the Brahmana Mahasala to stay on for further consulation. |
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