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Having said this much, the Brāhmin's grand-daughter stood silent. The king asked her, “What happened next? The girl said “ My time is over. I am going home. " The king asked her " How can I see that girl ? The Brāhmin's grand. daughter then replied “I am that very girl. I am an actress on the stage of this worldly play. The king said " is whatever you say, true? She said “ If the stories told before you by the people are genuine, then only, my story is, also such. Saying so, she went away to her house.
Jayasri addressing Jambu Kumāra, said 'My dear husband ! Why do you deceive us by story-telling, in the way Nāgaści did the king ?
Jambū Kumāra, thereupon, replied “ I am engrossed in pleasures of this world like afraina Kumāra. Hear his storya
not deeply
Lalitānga
THE STORY OF LALITĀNGA KUMĀRA.
There was a very powerful king named Tarta Śatāyudha at a town named aatang Kandarpakośapura. He had a queen named for at Lilāvati.
One day, when queen Lilavati, decorated with costly garments and valuable ornaments, was sitting in a balcony of her palace, she saw a very handsome young man-man actual incarnation of Cupid-the God of Love-passing that way, riding a swift horse. Lilavati. fell in love with him as soon as she saw him and began to suffer from the pangs of Cupid.
Lalitānga Kumāra, also, on seeing her, fell in love with her. Thinking the wife of a king to be inaccessible for such purposes, Lalitānga Kumāra went home.
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