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-they were upto their neck inside water Jitasatru thought that he had not obliged his lady for a long time, and that he should now compensate for this long neglect He held her in -a deep embrace
"Sukumala's mind was, however, elsewhere planning some mischief She did not pay much attention to what the king did or said The few words that she herself spoke contained no warmth, But the king did not notice this. He was busy enjoying himself They spent sometime like this Sukumala was, however, looking for a chance When at last she found that the king had lost all control of himself and had completely given himself up to her, she lost no time to give him a severe push into the very depth of She didn't care even to see what happened to him, but rushed out of the water, and at a hurried pace, returned to her home to tell the cripple that she had successfully completed the mission.
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"Finding himself in the depth of water, the king struggled for life for some time, and as luck would have it, he escaped the jaws of death But he had now a complete picture of the betrayal He was convinced that this occasion was contrived to liquidate him He had now but hatred for the unfaithful woman, and more than that he had a great remorse for his own blindness Within a moment, he made a complete review of his whole life, as if the whole thing was on a screen--how happy he was once in the company of this very woman who was his first queen, how his blind lust for her body turned him away from the position of a king to that of a pauper, how hard he was now struggling for life, and so on But this day's incident open a new outlook for him, and he felt that this was the most sacred moment of his life, since, at this moment, he was wholly liberated of the company of one who was inherently and basically low Besides, he got the
The king was an expert in swimming -support of a piece of floating log So he swam for a long
