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Wooden Elephant
The king Udayana saw on the southern slope of the Vindhya Range that elephant looking like a real one, pointed out to him by his scouts from a distance. He slowly approached it, alone, playing on his Veena, thinking how he should bind it, and singing in melodious tones. As his mind was fixed on his music, and the shades of evening were setting in, that king did not perceive that the supposed elephant was an artificial one. The elephant, too, for its part, lifting up its ears and flapping them, as if through delight in the music, kept advancing and then retiring, and so drew the king to a great distance.

Then, suddenly issuing from that artificial elephant, a body of soldiers in full armor surrounded that King of Vatsa. When Udayana beheld them, the king in a rage drew his hunting-knife, but while he was fighting with those in front of him he was seized by others coming up behind. Those warriors, with the help of others, who appeared at a concerted signal, carried that King of Vatsa into the presence of the mighty King Chandamahasena, who for his part came out to meet him with the utmost respect and entered with him the city of Ujjaini....Read Kathamukha...Sivkishen Ji, Author