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varma went away. Queen Champakmala asked the king :
"My Loard! What is the secret of what I just now heard from Gunvarma. If you do not want to keep it a secret and if it has no relation with any political future, please narrate to me the whole thing."
The king said
"My dear the secret of it is that childless-ness in a great curse. However dear we hold others' son, ours is ours and other's is after all other's. Somebody has rightly said that dewdrops do not quench a thirst.
Lobhakar considers his nephew Gunvarma as his own son. Yot he can not be regarded as his son. That is why the pain of Lobhakar could not be cooled. I was thinking that only that there may be lakhs of means of happiness, but the life without a son is a big curse."
