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Ja ya simha's army. King Madana bhrama arrived and 700 youthful damsels riding mares with due erotic decorations were sent against the hostile army. They forcefully marched towards it and retreated in no time. Ja y asimha's cavalry pursued them and entered the eastern gates along with their king. Both the kings met; Madan a bhra ma conduced king Jayasimha deva to his palace and adored him. Mutual love having sprung forth, king Madanabhrama pronounced to king Jaya sih adeva that since he roamed about outside his kingdom for as many as twelve years he was a notorious king. He advised him to stay at home and enjoy royal pastimes.
Ja ya sim hade va admitted this and M a da na bhra ma, being pleased with him, presented to him, at the time of departure, eight excellent damsels possessed of beauty as well as puberty. On suddenly learning that they were offered to the king of Gujarata, six of them died near the citygates due to heart-bursting and the rest two nained Mayūrāņi or Manoharā and Pethūrāņi or Pșthulaśroņi were brought to Pattana, where the king was received with due festivities.
3. THE STORY OF THE FIVE-HANDLED ROYAL UMBRELLA OF
VIKRAMADITYA
Once, while returning from his usual round of the city of Ujjayini, king Vikramaditya beheld a lady taunting from her balcony a scavenger woman who had stopped her sweeping work in honour of the royal procession and expressing her despise for the king inasmuch as he did not possess a royal umbrella of five handles. Having returned to his palace he summoned the lady
ers approached and greeted him. The king asked them to prepare a fi ve-handled parasol for him. They replied that they would make such a parasol for him only who fulfilled their five desires. The king agreed and asked what he had to do.
Desire 1:
They replied: "In the first instance, having defeated the lady within three days you shall marry her."
She came there with full pomp in company of her maids. The king could not win till the evening of the second day. That night he went to her ward
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