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night in which Durbuddhi had reached the topmost point of his vice he was cut down by the supreme hand of God. For, it is said, that when crime increases, God himself cannot bear.
The morning dawned, Subuddhi rose from his couch, and after his morning prayers was sitting in the council hall. The princess aad her mother rose from their beds, and were after their business. A servant just at that time came running to the old queen, and said, "Our king is weeping in his room that his daughter is now no more. I think that there is something wrong with his majesty's brains to-day. Come and console him." The queen, who knew nothing of what had happened, ran to her husband's room quite astonished at the change. The husband reported everything to her, the sage-looking minister's son, the barber son-inlaw, and everything, and then concluded that their daughter and son-in-law were no more. “What! compose yourself. Our son-in-law is sitting in his durbar. Our daughter is just adorning herself in her dressing-room. Were you dreaming P Are you in your right senses P" said the queen. The king ordered the executioner to bring the heads, which, on examination, proved to be those of the minister's son and of the foster-sister. The queen told everything of the one-day-wife-giving engagement, and her own arrangements about it. The old king could not understand what all this meant. He drew out his sword and ran to the durbar like a maddened lion, and stood armed
before his son-in-law, "Relate to me your true origin, and everything respecting yourself. Speak the truth. How came you to learn medicine? If you are a prince why should you leave your own dominions and come down here? What about the beastly agreement of giving your wife to another Who is this minister's son ?" Sabuddhi, without omitting a single point, related everything that had taken place, even to the putting out of his eyes. The old man threw down his sword, took his son-in-law in his arms almost, for so great was his joy at the excellent way which fate had prepared for his escape, and said, "My son, my life, my eye. True it is true it is. Dharma alone conquers, and you that hold that motto have conquered everything. The vile wretch whom notwithstanding the series of rogueries that he practised upon you, you protected, has at last found ont that his Adhariam never conquers. But he never found it out. It was his Adharmam that cut him off on the very night of his supposed complete conquest by it."
Letters were sent at once to Tėvai, inviting Suguna and Dharmabila to the happy rejoicings for the prince and princess's delivery, and a re-marriage was celebrated with all pomp in honour of their lucky escape. Dharmasila, as he disliked his son, never shed a single tear for his loss. Subuddhi lived for a long time, giving much consolation to his own and his wife's parents. Through the blessings of Kali they had several intelligent sons.
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to secure Ghazni and its neighbourhood. The When Muhammad Khuârezm Shah retired fortresses of Ghur he confided to the Malik from the kernel of his dominions towards the Husam-u'd-din, Husain-i-'Abd-u'l-Malik, Sar. West, we are told by Minhaj-i-Saraj he i-Zarrad, who was in the fort of Sangah of entrusted his fortresses to various trusted Ghur, and Malik Kutb-ud-din Husain, son commanders. Thus he appointed the Amir of Ali-i-Abi-Ali. The Malik-ul-Kuttab,' the Zangi-i-Abi Hafs, with the troops of Seistan, Ikhtiyar-ul-Mulk, Daulat Yar-i-Tughrai he sent to take charge of Termed, the standard-bearer to the fort of Kaliun, and ordered that the two Sam and the pahluvan Arsiah be sent to the famous pahluvans of Khorasan, the sons of fortress of Walkh of Tokharistan, which, our Somangar, should also go there. Malik Shemsauthor tells us, was four farsankhs square. u'd din Muhammad, the Jurjani,' was planted Bamian he made over to the Amir Umr, the at Herat, and the fortress of Fiwar was made Bawardi, and sent orders to the Malik Iktyar- over to the pahluvan Asil-u'd-din, the Nishapuri, u'd-din, Muhammad, son of Ali-i-Kharpost, son-in-law of the pahluvan Mubarak, the Kurd. The ass-skinned. • Chief secretary.
Ravorty prefers the reacing Jurjani.
