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do you brood over being depressed at heart ? " Then that queen Sama, being thus spoken to by king Sihasena, spoke thus to king Sihasena breathing angrily." Truly, oh, lord! The four hundred ninty nine mothers of my four hundred ninty nine co-wives having got the intelligence about the matter that Sāmā (and so forth as above, down to) summoned each other and spoke thus: "Truly king Siharaha, being greatly enamoured of queen Sāmā, does not honour our daughters and they, therefore await the opportunities of killing me. Therefore, I don't know by what wretched death they will kill me and therefore being greatly afraid I brood over. Then that king Sihasena spoke thus to queen Sāmā: "Oh, you, beloved of the gods do not be dejected at heart and brood over. I shall so try that there will be no pain or trouble to you from anywhere. And thus he consoled her by those sweet (6) words and then returned, and having done so he summoned his family men and having done so he spoke to them thus: "Oh, you, beloved of the gods! go and erect a lofty mansion outside the city of Supaittha which would be supported on hundreds of pillars, which would be pleasant to look at (4) and report to me about the carrying out of this order. Then those family-men with folded hands (here the rest to be supplied, down to) responded to this and having done so they erected a lofty mansion in the western direction which was supported on hundreds of pillars and, which was pleasant (4),
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