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Kingdom how can he kill me ? We can suspect the whole world for doing evil to me. Will you consider the whole world as an enemy ? O queen ! If we do so, to live itself becomes a difficult task.
You understand and follow what I advise. Remove illusion, doubts and fear from your mind. This child is innocent. Do not bring into disrepute the motherly love. Rear this child.”
Queen Kusumavali took back her son from the maid-servant. Her hidden and suppressed motherly love woke up. Milk poured out like ocean from her breasts. to feed the child. Now she was repenting. King Sinhkumar gazed at her without mincing a bit. He now explained to her:
“My dearest Queen ! No power in the whole world can do evil to the soul. The greatest and the wickedest of our foes can annihilate our body, can burn it and tear it to pieces, but he can
