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to prevail. We are Kshatriyas. And so long as we are here, a yogi will not be allowed to take her away in marriage.'
From all sides, there were shouts of 'Arrest him, kill him.' Mahabal, in the garb of a yogi, there upon challanged:
'You cawards! If you were brave, you would have been able to fulfill the conditions of the declaration which was made. Whoever loves, his death, may come up to fight with me.'
Uttering these words, Mahabal threw away the musical instrument. He took a sword in his hands, he threw a challange to the kings. The wrath of the kings was pacified.
King Veerdhaval was worriedly thinking The predictions of the astrologer came perfectly true. But in the end, he had also predicted that prince Mahabal of Pathanpur will be my son-in-law In spite
