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hanging upside down. He has been bound with the sankes. Please save him and punish the culprit-severely."
The king thought: "Who is such a man who has taken law into his own hands Even if that man in bondage happens to be a thief or a robber. it is I who should punish him. Any body and every body can not pass sentences of justice. It may also be possible that some thief might have tied down some innocent person. It may be anything. In view of both these possibilities the problem is worth investigating. Now, after solving this problem only, I will sace my life.
Thus, after almost reaching the mountain, they all returned. The king, the queen, the minister and all other hanged upside down, and bound by the snakes. The minister got the branch of the tree cut cautiously and carefully. Attempts were made to bring him to
