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JAIN RAMAYAN
“You are right. As soon as it is morning, I will give this order to the Vidyadhar assistants”.
Princess Anjana had passed through girlhood and had stepped on the threshold of youth. Every organ of her body had been irradiated by the radiance of youth and had bloomed into blissful shapes like tender lotuses. From her girlhood's fount of flame surged out her life-flood streaming into buoyant youthfulness. She was the very enbodiment of extraordinary beauty, elevated virtues and unexampled accomplishments. Her parents who loved her greatly were carrying out an incessant search for a suitable bridegroom, for her. The intelligent and experienced assistants and messengers of Mahendra, the king of Vidyadhars were searching for such a bridegroom, day and night. They were looking for a bridegroom who would be a suitable husband to their beautiful princess. The wheel of time was revolving fast. The King and the Queen began to fear that they might not be able to find a bridegroom who would be a suitable match to their daughter. This was the cause for the King's agitation.
The next morning, accordingly, he sent for his Chief Minister and the two held a long discussion about the subject in his chamber. The King informed his Chief Minister of what he and the queen had thought of on the previous night.
The Chief Minister liked the suggestion very much. Delighted by it he said..
"Your Excellency! This method is really excellent. It will enable us to choose the right bridegroom easily and without any worry”.
They sent for the Vidyadhar messengers, gave them the necessary orders and sent them in search of a suitable bridegroom.
Sometime passed.
One day, a Vidyadhar King who had been sent in search of a bridegroom came to King Mahendra. He bowed to the King
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