According to Kathasaitasagara Ratnaprabhalambaka Taranga 6, Tapanta, a minister at the court of king Vatsa told him a story about Ajara, to show how a man’s deeds in his previous births will follow him into his next birth too.

Once there was a king named Vinayasheela who ruled Shrikrishnagiri from his capital at Vilasapura. As time passed, the king became old. A physician named Tarunachandra arrived to heal him. The physician told the king that he would have to stay alone underground for eight months. He would have to take a medicine that no one should ever see, and the medicine would be administered by Tarunachandra. The king agreed and went underground for six months. Meanwhile Tarunachandra found a man who resembled the king and after two more months, killed the king and replaced him with the impostor. The subjects thought that their king had been cured and acknowledged the impostor as their king. He was called Ajara. Sometime later, the physician approached Ajara for his reward. Ajara told him that he had become a king because of his deeds in the past life. He had meditated and renounced his body, at which point he had been blessed that he would be a king in his next birth. The physician left empty handed.