so pondered gangazara in the dark cell underground, and at that moment thought of his three friends. the tiger-king, serpent-king, and rat-king assembled at once with their armies at a garden near the dungeon, and for a while did not know what to do. they held their council, and decided to make an underground passage from the inside of a ruined well to the dungeon. the rat raja issued an order at once to that effect to his army. they, with their teeth, bored the ground a long way to the walls of the prison. after reaching it they found that their teeth could not work on the hard stones. the bandicoots were then specially ordered for the business; they, with their hard teeth, made a small slit in the wall for a rat to pass and repass without difficulty. thus a passage was effected.