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does not desire to have any intermediary between herself and me. She expects a direat contact with me. She has made such an indirect suggestion by slapping the messenger that I should not use an intermediary. So I shall myself now go to her."
The king then went to Malaya. He tried to win her by barious attractions. He begged her love also. With the idea of turning the king to good path, Malaya said:
"Maharaj! You have saved me. You have thereby given me a new birth. So you are like my actual father who brought me in this world. Ordinarily also, a king is consided the fulher of his subjects. I am also one of your subjects. It is a very great sin to have such on idea in mind about one's oun offspring."
The king paused for a moment. Then be thought:
