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bearer! The pomp with which he had come to turn to the 11th page was now a king!" and the honour paid to him by all that accom- thought she. "Let me wait. Let me wait. It panied him instilled a mysterious awe into the Was haste that deprived me of my father." As mind of the princess, and forsaking her gosha soon as they reached home the princess asked for the time she ran down to meet him just as King Krishna Singh to relate his story. He he was coming up. They met and saluted and said he would take off his angarkha (coat) she who commanded him till now fonnd in his before telling her, and as he did so to his great countenance an anspeakable majesty, which vexation he found that he had forgotten the forced her to obey his orders. He adorned her pearl hára that the old king had given him. with jewels from head to foot, while she gladly His face at once changed colour and his wife received the honours thrust upon her and asked asked him what was the matter. "I have forhim to tell her by what good fortune he had gotten the hdra l" was his reply, and with that he become king. He replied that everything began to descend hastily. The princess caught would be revealed in time and that she must his arm and said: "My dear husband, don't start without delay to the temple of Kali for you know that I am the daughter of an the Swinging Festival. She could not but Emperor? I can get you hundreds of such ubey.
háras. Don't trouble yourself any more about it. By this time a voice was heard :-"My dear | Be quiet and stay here." young king, why are you so late P" It was Krishna Singh told her that as she was young the old king calling! What were the thonghts and inexperienced she spoke so, and that it was of the princess now? The Takkuttakki that not right for him to neglect a present, even if it had but three or four short ghafikdo ago washed were a kaudi." Besides he would be back in a her utensils had become a king, and was being couple of minutes. The princess proposed called to in very affectionate terms by the old sending a servant, but he objected that if they king! Wonder of wonders ! she was impatient did so the neglect might become known some to ask, but there was no time. So they all day and vex the old king. So he ran off and started for the temple of Kali.
reached the grove. It was a very dark night, As all the preparations for the feast had been and a dead silence prevailed. in it. Groping made solely in order to get a view of the prin- his way he crept to the tree on which he had cess-now the young queen,—the ministers and suspended the håra ; and put ont his right others had a very good view of her, as she was hand to take it. Horror of horrors! A black kept swinging for a very long time in the swing and hungry serpent that was sitting over it in which she sat with King Krishna Singh. bit him severely and he fell down dead. The old king threw a very valuable pearl hara" Alas! poor Krishna Singh! There was his over his new king's neck. But he who had once newly married wife to whom he had not spoken had the patience to run for a whole day before a word as a husband! There was the old king the flying horses now found the hára too heavy, entirely dependent upon him. He had not bad so he took it off and hung it on the branch of a time even to see his father Tan Singh. Poor tree near the swing. The feast was kept up for old emperor, what would his feelings be a long while and the party did not retorn till when he came to know what had happened! about the second ghatika of the night. All the Thus, leaving so many people that loved him way home King Krishna Singh was praised as at the moment of reaping the fruits of his the noblest and most intelligent of kings. Here | labours, poor Krishna Singh died ! But it was and there a petitioner stood forth and said :- not for ever. . “Good and gracions king, I have been waiting | Between the garbhagriha" of the temple of for the whole of the last fortnight, please send Kali and the inner chamber of the house of the me away soon."
princess of Pushpapura there was a subter. The princess could not understand all this. ranean passage, through which she used to "How was it that he who did not know how come daily at midnight and propitiate the
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"Kaudensed
money, one kande being equal to
The inmost shrine of Hindu temples in which the idol is worshipped
