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A. CHAKRAVARTI :
The robber, hearing this, said to her, “Despite what you say, were I to spare your life, you would go and tell your mother and father all. I will kill you. That is all. Lament not with vehement lamentation.' So saying he recited the following stanza :
Lament not over much; tie up your possession quickly. You have not long to live; I shall take all your possessions.
She thought to herself, 'Oh, what a wicked deed is this? However, wisdom was not made to be cooked ånd eaten, but rather to make men look before they leap. I shall find a way of dealing with him.' And she said to him, 'Husband, when they caught you in the act of committing robbery and led you through the streets, I told my mother and father, and they spent a thousand pieces of money in ransoming you and they gave you a place in their house, and from that time on I have been your benefactress; to-day do me the favour of letting me pay obeisance to you’ ‘Very well, wife,' said he, granted her the favour of paying obeisance to him, and then took his stand near the edge of the cliff.
She walked around him three times, keeping him on her right hand, and paid obeisance to him in the four places. Then she said to him, 'Husband, this is the last time I shall see you. Henceforth you will see me no more, neither shall I see you anymore.' And she embraced him both before and behind. Then, remaining behind him, as he stood off his guard near the edge of the cliff, she put one hand to his shoulder
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