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

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trudging along, and his curiosity being at its height, he
made up to within a respectful distance of him, and kept
him in view till he came near to the temple. Koobjuck
here slightly hesitated, but at last, plucking up his courage,
he entered the ground on which the temple was situated,
close upon the heels of the king, and as the sovereign closed
the door after him, Koobjuck leaned forward, and gave an
attentive ear to the conversation that passed within between
the king and hermit. At the close of the conference, when
he found the king was about to retire, Koobjuck made all
possible haste to regain his post, which he did without
any one suspecting his temporary absence; and as the
king returned back to the town, Koobjuck saluted him
with his usual equanimity, as though nothing in the
world had happened to disturb it. The following day
his majesty, as was his usual practice, spent in regu-
lating the affairs of his kingdom, and when night drew
on he set forth again for the temple of Shiva, having pre-
viously issued an order that the vigilant Koobjuck should be
placed, as on the previous day, to watch the suburbs of the
town. The wily sentinel was punctual to his time, having
anticipated the hour of the king’s departure, and taken up
his place. Thence he saw the king depart the second time
to meet the hermit, and he also followed, and, as before,
might have been seen listening with as much eagerness as
on the former occasion, beside the temple door. Three
successive visits were paid by the king to the hermit in
this way, and at all three Koobjuck managed to be present
in the manner described, until, at the end of the third
visit, the hermit had made the king thoroughly acquainted
with the mysteries of transmigration, and every portion of
the instruction thus imparted to the sovereign had become
equally familiar to the sentinel, so that, without even the
shadow of a suspicion, he had been able clandestinely to
acquire the knowledge.
The day following that on which the last of the visits
was paid to him by the king, the hermit left the court,