विक्रम चरित (उज्जैन सम्राट् विक्रमादित्य - पराक्रम, न्याय एवं ३२ पुतलियों की कथा सटीक)

233 also thanked, as it was to him personally that he was indebted for effecting this great and joyful surprise. He then thought of the hermit, .whose advice he had followed, and in his heart thanked him with truth and sincerity. In a little time the sun rose in all his splendour in the east, and no sooner did his rays fall upon the rock than it gradually began to melt away, till nothing was left. Charoo now threw into the sea the food he had brought with him, on which the chief of the fishes approached him, to whom he expressed in glowing terms his sense of the service which had been rendered him by the fishes. 'I know,' said he, 'that but for the aid I have received I should not have succeeded in this enterprise, and I am therefore under no small obligation to you all.' "The chief of the fishes now produced three rich and invaluable jewels, which he had brought with him from the deep, and presented them to Charoo, but the latter could not be persuaded to accept of them. He said that by God's grace he had many such at his command; and being greatly indebted to him already for the removal of the rock, it would, to say the least, be ungenerous in him to accept presents from one to whom it would be far more becoming in him to make them. The chief smiled, and said, 'What is your idea, then, of the jewels I now offer you? They are very rare, and greatly excel in their quality .any you can by any possibility be possessed of. This jewel,' said he, holding out one of them, 'if worshipped and worthily reverenced, will supply you with several kinds of dainties, and the best descriptions of food, in any quantity. The second will produce in the same manner immense treasure, and the third will, by merely holding it in your hand, transport you to any place to which you may wish to proceed, and that in a very short time.' Charoo, seeing the use of these extraordinary jewels, received them thank- fully and with much pleasure; after which he embraced the chief of the fishes, affectionately took leave of him, and parted from him to return to his released wife. EE