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The king was overhearing Sall these as he had hid himself behind the doors. He fainted on hearing this. He regained his consciousness after many attempts. He began to wail :
'Oh! This wicked kanakmala pushed my dear daughter in the jaws of death. She cast such a magic network that my senses were stunted. What would I do now even if I am alive? I will beg her pardon even by being dead and going to her."
All the courtiers and citizens thought that the princess has already left and now we will lose even the king. We will be orphan without the king. All citizens reached the river-side to search again for the princess. Some of them even jumped into the deep well for searching her there. But they neither got Malaya alive nor her dead boey. Now the king was fully sure that 'my daughter is no more in this world.'
