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sometime, Cokh left Mithil for Pmc la along with other mendicants. Reaching there, she along with her disciple mendicants reached K mpilya city and started her discourse on purifying religion. King Jita atru welcomed mendicant Cokh and along with his huge family listener to her discourse in his harem. Even while listening to the discourse, Jita atru's mind was on his faultlessly beautiful queens, their invaluable adornments and within he was feeling proud about his incomparable wealth. After the discourse the king asked Cokh – “For your discourse you must be visiting huge and wealthy harems, have you seen such a vast one filled with beyonddescription faultless beauties anywhere else?” Hearing king Jita atru's question; Cokh kept laughing for a while and then said, “We have seen the daughter of king of Mithil , Mall. Truly she is the most beautiful woman of this world. The beauty of all the celestial women and the n ga women pale in front of her beauty. This, your harem, is insignificant and worthless in front of her beauty.” Saying this, Cokh left for her destination. Hearing the description of Mall 's beauty king Jita atru sent his messenger to Mithil with the instructions to convey to the king of Mithil that I am firm in my resolve to marry his daughter in return for my entire P mc la kingdom.
Coincidentally, all the six messengers sent to the king Kumbha by the six kings including Pratibuddhi reached at the same time and after meeting each other, went together to the royal assembly of king Kumbha. After respectful placations the six messengers placed their respective kings' proposals before the king Kumbha. After hearing the wedding proposals for Mall from the six kings, king Kumbha was uncontrollably angry. In an agitated tone, he screamed and told the messengers "Go tell your kings that I shall not wed my daughter to even one of them.” The six messengers left the royal hall and started for their respective kingdoms. Each of them told their kings of the angry and agitated response of the king of Mithil that he would not wed Mall to you at any cost or on any condition.
Hearing the negative response, Jita atru and others sent messages to each other, and decided that king Kumbha had insulted our messengers and sent them out of his palace and rejected out proposal and request, thereby
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