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by mentioning any fact about the prince. She was worrying all the while. Seeing her silent, the king said:
"Great queen! Let apart the idea of renunciation. Even otherwise, when the son becomes quite capable, the old father should hand over the responsibility of kingdom to his son. The king who does not do this at the proper time, is fared with the revolt of his sons. Not only that, but the sons even murder their father."
The queen remembered all the past incidents-the dream of the snake entering her mouth before conceiving her child Anandkumar, the desire to devour the intestines of her husband after her conceiving all these she remembered and became unhappy. She actually trembled. She thought:
'When my husband himself hands *-over the Kingdom to Anandkumar,
