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"Your Excellency ! In the whole of the Vidyadhar world, the City of Adityapur is renowned for its extraordinary prosperity and progress. Prahlad, the Vidyadhar King of that city is famous far and near. Prahlad is a valiant and virtuous king, and his wife Queen Ketumati is the very embodiment of beauty and nobility. Prince Pavananjay is their son. He is not only a man of extraordinary heroism and valour but also an absolute master of magnificent accomplishments. This is a portrait of Prince Pavananjay. His very portrait reveals his extraordinary virtues and beautiful features. He is renowned for his incisive intelligence and invincible valour. Nature seems to have chosen the noblest day to form this young man, discarding for a while her usual way of making men out of her exhausted moulds”.
Even after hearing the narrators of both the followers, the problem of the King and the Queen was not solved because
is no disparity in respect of appearance, virtues, valour and intelligence. Each seemed to excel the other. The problem instead of getting solved became more tangled and confusing. All were silent, absorbed in deep thoughtfulness. No one could think of any solution to this problem. There was absolute silence in the court. Just then, the official who had brought the portrait of Prince Vidyutprabha stood up and said.
“Your Excellency. I have not mentioned one important point”.
“What is it ?" King Mahendra said eagerly.
“Prince Vidyutprabha is a Charamshariri soul. That is, this is the last Janma of his bodily existence. Scholarly astrologers have said that he would attain Moksha in this Janma”.
Compared to Pavananjay, Vidyutprabha seemed to be unique and extraordinary on account of this virtue. The Chief Minister glanced towards that official and said with the idea of knowing more details about this special virtue of Prince Vidyutprabha.
"Indeed, this speciality of Vidyutprabha is incomparably great. We admire it but did those astrologers who predicted that
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