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The hunter agreed and the queen equipped him with all the tools
provisions and followers necessary for crossing the seven mountains
and capturing the elephant. Sonuttara set forth with an army of
hunters towards the forests of the Himalayas. But all his men
perished on the way, and he alone reached the seven mountains.
The mountains were high and the forests were thick, and it took
Sonuttara seven years, seven months and seven days to reach the
lake. At last he reached the lake, saw the elephant herd and noted the
place where the white elephant browsed. As the elephant went back
in the evening, Sonuttara dug a pit at the place where he had
browsed, covered the mouth of the pit with grass and leaves and hid
himself in a tree. White elephant came and fell in the pit and
Sonuttara wounded him with arrows. Chandanta trumpeted in agony
and the herd ran away in fear.
When the elephants ran away from the place, Sonuttara, came
down from the tree, and the Bodhisatva asked him why he wanted to
kill him, "Because," said the hunter, "the queen of Benaras wants
your tusks." Now the Bodhisatva understood who the queen of
Benaras was and why she wanted to kill me. But he did not resent it;
on the contrary, he asked the hunter to cut his tusks as soon as he
could. Sonuttara however, found it difficult to reach his tusks because
of the great height of the Bodhisatva. So the Bodhisatva allowed him
to climb up his trunk and cut his tusks. But the tusks of the
Bodhisatva were hard as iron and Sonuttara could not cut them. So
the Bodhisatva, suffering immense pain, took the saw from the