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

Mahaunt's advice, who answered thus:—' Is there not a
minister or an astrologer at your majesty's court, who can by
his judgment and wisdom suggest some plan? If there be
none such, my advice would be that you employ immediately
a large number of stonecutters and labourers to hew down
the mountain, and thus save your kingdom from the utter
ruin with which it is threatened. Be not apprehensive, but
act as I have now suggested.' The king asked the minister
why he had not mentioned to him the sudden appearance of
the mountain, and appeared much enraged. The minister
begged his majesty's pardon, and without any loss of time
employed a great many stonecutters and others to demolish
the black mountain. Next day the king set off to see it,
accompanied by the Mahaunt, the minister, and some other
officials, and was much astonished at its size and peculiar
colour. The labourers were all very busy, cutting it away
piecemeal; and there seemed a fair chance of its being
speedily removed altogether, to judge from the great number
of men employed. The Măhaunt was very liberally enter-
tained for some time by the king and his courtiers, as a
benefactor who had by his timely notice and advice saved
their country from ruin. At length he asked for permission
to depart, which gave the king much concern, as he would fain
have retained him in the palace. With this view the king
said he would confer on him the honors and emoluments of
his minister, to which the Mahaunt replied, 'I have no incli-
nation whatever to remain, however exalted the position you
may allot to me. I was on my way to Swethbund Ramesh-
wer on a pilgrimage, when I saw the great evil which was
impending over your kingdom; I therefore turned from my
way to acquaint you with it. It is the duty of every man to
act thus when it lies in his power.' The king and his
courtiers conceived a great regard and veneration for this
Mahaunt, and they pressed him very much to accept diffe-
rent costly presents, all of which, however, he firmly declined.
The king then thanked him in the most grateful manner,
and said he had been instrumental, under Providence, in
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