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Chapter:-2 Collection of Stories
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Thus you say-O Devānupāyā! What is the arrival of the bride? Then they, the men of the inner quarters, say to the maid-servant-We, O Devānupāyā! want to give your daughter in marriage to Teyalipuṭṭa for his wife. Do you know, O Devānupāyā! whether it is proper, or possible, or advisable, or whether there is a suitable match, give your daughter in marriage to Teyalipuṭṭa. Then say, O Devānupāyā! what shall we give as a gift? Then the maid-servant says to those men of the inner quarters-This, O Devānupāyā! is my son Teyalipuṭṭa, he will do a favour for me for the sake of my daughter. Those men of the inner quarters honour him with abundant food, drink, eatables, and drinkables, flowers, clothes, and even ornaments.
Then they go out of the maid-servant's house, and as soon as they reach Teyalipuṭṭa's house, they inform Teyalipuṭṭa. Then the maid-servant, on some auspicious day, in some auspicious three-part-time, auspicious constellation, and auspicious moment, adorns her daughter with all ornaments, and makes her ready, and then, accompanied by her friends, relatives, and attendants, she goes out of the house, and then, with all pomp and ceremony, she reaches Teyalipuṭṭa's house, and then she gives her daughter in marriage to Teyalipuṭṭa herself. Then Teyalipuṭṭa receives his bride, and then he ties a thread with the adorned bride, and then he bathes himself with white and yellow pitchers, and then he performs the fire-sacrifice, and then he performs the hand-taking ceremony, and then he honours the bride and her friends, relatives, and attendants with abundant food, drink, eatables, and drinkables, flowers, clothes, and even ornaments. Then Teyalipuṭṭa lives happily with his bride.
Then the king of that city, in his kingdom, in his army, in his vehicles, in his treasury, in his storehouse, in his palace, in his fort, in his army, in his sons, mutilates, cuts off the fingers of the disobedient, cuts off the thumbs of the disobedient, and similarly mutilates the toes and thumbs, cuts off the ear-lobes, breaks the noses, mutilates the limbs. Then, on some previous occasion, at some previous time, the queen Paumavati, in her mind, in her thoughts, in her heart, in her intentions, had thought thus-If the king of that city, in his kingdom, in his army, in his vehicles, in his treasury, in his storehouse, in his palace, in his fort, in his army, in his sons, mutilates, cuts off the fingers of the disobedient, cuts off the thumbs of the disobedient, and similarly mutilates the toes and thumbs, cuts off the ear-lobes, breaks the noses, mutilates the limbs, then, if I give my daughter in marriage, then, surely, my daughter will be in danger of being killed or imprisoned by the king of that city. Thus she thought, and then she informed Teyalipuṭṭa, and said-Thus, O Devānupāyā! the king of that city, in his kingdom, in his army, in his vehicles, in his treasury, in his storehouse, in his palace, in his fort, in his army, in his sons, mutilates, cuts off the fingers of the disobedient, cuts off the thumbs of the disobedient, and