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151 become my prinapal queen. In order to carry out his fraudulent plan, the king said to Mahabal :
“Vaidyaji ! Do me one more favour. I shall then return your wife. I have been suffuing from head-ache since long. I took recourse to many remedies but the disease is not cured. One physician has prescribed me his most effective drug. If some obliging vaidya would give me the ashes of his body and if the paste of those ashes is applied to my head, my disease would be cured. If you do my this much work, I shall return you your wife.”
Mahabal said :
“Get prepared a pyre. I shall perform your that work also.”
All persons who were present that thought :
“This vaidya will be consumed to asbes. There-after to whom is the king
