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over would win me here in gambling, oh mother, shall sleep with me." This she said. Then men were defeated by the woman in gambling. Taking their wealth she gave it to the bawd and then put curds and boiled rice in the courtyard. The flock of perrots residing in the buuyan tree of the sea pocked at it and returned. Then that parrot inquired of them " Where had you gone whence you have returned with food, oh friends ?” To bim the parrots told everything. They were then again asked by him " Take me to that place where boiled rice has been offered by the young woman." Then he was immediately taken by them to the house of the harlot whero he was seen by her.
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14. The parrot, as it recked, shed profuse tears, seeivg its young mistress. She, knowing it to be the old parrot, called it to her, pronouncing its name "Oh parrot, iny brother, come here. Where is your master living ?" "I know not, mistress, where the king has gone.” Disappointment grew in her mind. She was dissuaded by the parrot " Oh mistress, purity of heart is destroyed in those who give way to sorrow. My mind says, oh fawn-eyed lady, the master shall meet us having acquired prosperity." Listening to the affectionate words of the parrot, she felt consoled with pure feelings. Her fame advanced like the sea. Young men were traped in good pearl garlands.* Some-body told Aridamana" In the town of Khambhāyacca no man can play the game of dice; none can defeat the girl there."
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15. Listening to that with concentrated inind, the king immediately went to Khambhāyacca. Reaching there, be quickly went to the gambling house attracting the mind of all the gamblers. Sitting in their midst he shone as if bearing the beauty of the full moon. With honour, he won seven hundred gold from the kings. Giving wealth to jesters and loafers, he went to the house of the harlots greedy of richess. He sent a challenge to her whose fame in gambling had gone wide. He thea himself went there at night, where the young woman was sitting with the parrot. He told her “Let us play the game of dice which is a harbinger of love, oh beautiful one! " By the king she was defeated and she became perplexed. Then knowing him to be her husband she embraced him limb to limb.
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• The line is more significant in suggesting that the Kadavaka is composed in Mauktikaduma metre,
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