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seen. Truly, O Lord, after the passing of nine full months, the Queen shall give birth to a boy. This boy, his childhood spent, will be a lord of an empire, a king or he will be a monk with soul purified.”
12. Now when two months had gone, and it was the third month of that child in her womb, Queen Dhárini was filled with a longing for untimely clouds after this fashion. “Happy are those mothers, fortunate are those mothers, the fruit of human birth and life has been reaped by those mothers who fulfil their desire mounted on the best elephant, and riding in all directions while clouds are spreading in the sky. I, too, therefore should fulfil my desire (down to) while clouds are spreading in the sky."
13. Then Queen Dhárini, with her desire unfulfilled and unaccomplished became withered, wizened, fleshless and weak.
14. Then Queen Dháriņi's personal a tendants and slaves and servants of the harem came to King Seņiya and said, “ Truly, O Lord, Queen Dbárini, today, withered, wizened and enwrapped in melancholy thoughts is brooding over something."
15. Then King Sepiya came where Queen Dháriņi was, and said to her, “What are you brooding over, O beloved of the gods, thus enwrapped in melancholy thoughts ?"
Then Queen Dháriņi replied, "Truly, my Lord, this kind of desire in untimely clouds has come upon
me"
1. Dohada Skt. Dohala-the longing of a pregnant woman.
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