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he ordered every day one of the inhabitants to relate a tale. When it became the turn of an illiterate priest to entertain the king with a story, the poor man was in great despair, because he was too awkward to speak before people and not able to tell anything. His daughter Nagasri, learning the cause of his alarm, promised to go in his stead. She boldly went to the palace and told the king that she was Nāgaśrī, daughter of the poor agnihotra Nagasarman and Somasri Her parents had promised her in marriage to a Brahman youth called Catta. Once when they were absent on a journey, her bridegroom had armved She had entertained him as well as she could, and for the night had offered him the only bed in the house. Being afraid to be on the filthy floor, she had waited till Catta was asleep and had then crept into the same bed. Catta, however, had become aware of her presence, and tried to suppress his suddenly awakened passions. This effort had killed him. When she had discovered the fact, she had become afraid that as appearances told against her, she would be thought guilty of having killed Catta and be punished accordingly. She, therefore, had cut the corpse into pieces and buried them secretly 1 When she had effaced all traces of what had happened, her parents had arrived The king asked Nagasri whether what she had told was true or not The girl laughed and said that there was no more truth in her story than in any other which he had heard before Jayasri winds up her tale by saying Jambu would not succeed in deluding them by empty stories.
Jambu relates
The 19th story about Lalitanga (215–275).
King Satayudha of Vasantapura had a beautiful wife, Lalita Once she was looking from the pavilion of the palace on the passing crowd in the street, when she observed a very handsome young man of whom she at once became passionately enamoured. Her servant, a shrewd woman, abetted her passion and found out for her that the young man was a certain Lalitanga,
1 Compare Avasy aka Niryukti, IX, 59, 14 (LEUMANN)
| SR No. | 010713 |
| Book Title | Sthaviravali Charitra or Parisista Parva |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Jacobi |
| Publisher | Asiatic Society |
| Publication Year | 1932 |
| Total Pages | 467 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 12 MB |