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The daughter-in-law removed the anklets. The son said, 'I was the only one in the Ashoka garden.' The elderly father said, 'I can say with certainty that there was another man with her at night.' Meanwhile, the daughter-in-law came and said in a loud voice, 'Until my purity is restored, I will not accept the bhakta-pana.'
Hearing the commotion, people gathered. She said, 'I will purify myself by taking the divine test.' The elderly citizens said, 'Undergo the test in front of the Yaksha in the temple.' After bathing and performing rituals, she reached there with the citizens. The king and others were also present. Meanwhile, a paramour named Sudarshana, disguised as a madman, came there wearing tattered clothes. He embraced the people and forcibly embraced the daughter-in-law. Addressing the guardians, he said, 'If I have not even thought of any man other than the one my parents married me to, and this possessed man, then I will safely pass through the Yaksha.'
Hearing this, the Yaksha was perplexed. She quickly passed through the Yaksha's idol. People cheered for her. Everyone started cursing the elder. The Yaksha thought, 'She has also deceived me.'
Despite being truthful, the elder was proven to be a liar. This worry kept the elder awake. He was appointed as the gatekeeper of the queens' chambers. When the first watch of the night passed, all the queens fell asleep, but one queen could not sleep. The elder pretended to sleep. The queen went to the mahout using the elephant's trunk. Due to the delay, the mahout angrily struck her with an iron chain. The queen said, 'Don't be angry. There is an old man appointed in the palace who has been sleeping for a long time.' In the morning, she went back to the palace on the elephant. The elder thought, 'If even the pure wives of the king can behave in such a contrary manner, then there is nothing surprising in what my daughter-in-law did.'
Thinking this, he became free from worry and fell into a deep sleep. Even at sunrise, he did not wake up. The complaint reached the king. The king summoned him, but the elder said, 'Don't wake me up.' On the seventh day, when his sleep was broken, the king asked, 'What is the matter?' Then he told the king the whole story and said that he did not know that queen.
The king had a clay elephant made. All the queens crossed the elephant. One queen said, 'I am afraid of the clay elephant.' Suspecting her, the king struck her with a lotus stalk. She fainted and fell to the ground. Marks of the iron chain blows on her back were visible. The king said, 'You were not afraid of the mad elephant, nor did you faint when struck with the chain, but you fainted when I struck you with the lotus stalk.' The king realized that she was a wanton woman. The king immediately ordered that the queen, the mahout, and the elephant - all three are worthy of execution. The executioner took them to the mountain and killed them.
The people told the king...