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by her for taking it entered the lower part for holding it up, he cut off his head with his sword, took the dvipati himself, mounted the she-camel and drove along the way to another country quite tacitly.
On the princess' enquiry he replied that he intended to hand her over to the gambler Caturanga in the east where she was lost at stake. Sorrowfully thinking in her mind that she missed the mark both ways she observed taciturnity
Having traversed a distance of eight to nine miles they alighted from the dromedary. He fell asleep while she kept awake. Suddenly, however, she saw a pair of lions bounding towards them and awakened the king who fatally pierced them both with a single arrow which he asked her to fetch back; and on her not doing so he threatened her with death. She besought him not to kill her, which he consented to on the condition that she would not disclose this feat of his to anybody.
Again he drove further and, as the sun rose, she was delighted to see that he was quite handsome. They alighted in the outskirts of a city and he went inside for fetching food leaving her alone beneath a tree on the riverbank, when a bawd approached her acting astonishment at her sight and exclaiming :
"O my niece! where had you been ? It is an auspicious day that you are found out !” With these words she conduced the princess to her residence along with the dromedary and arranged for her marriage with a royal officer's son who was praised by the woman-folk for killing a rat by means of an arrow!
She observed the situation, formed detachment and became ready to burn herself alive. None could dissuade her from her determination, Highly pressed, she narrated her tale while mounting the pyre.
At this very moment Vikram ādity a, who was wandering in search of the princess, arrived there and was recognized by her due to the dvipați. He disclosed his identity and the officer fell at his feet. Then having wedded the bride he returned to Ujjayini with royal pomp.
Thus was secured the second handle.
Desire 3 :
The old ladies commanded Vikramaditya to find out the real character of Umadevi, wife of Soma śar man, a Brahmana of Ujjayini, whose residence was marked by a tamarind tree standing at its gate,
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