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our king is afraid as two kings together came to invade him. The public is never impressed by a weak king.
I must therefore fight. I should satisby my father, father in-law and also subjects."
Thinking as above, Mahabal in the form of Sidhdhraj said to the messenger :
"To imprison an offender and then to set him free or not is our internal matter. No outsider has any right to interfere in the internal affairs of a kingdom. Tell your kings that I shall satisty their intense desire for fighting in the battlefield."
The messenger went back with the message of Mahabal. Mahabal pleased Malaya by giving her the news about the coming of his father and father in- law. But he at the same time told her that their coming is in the form of enemy kings. He also told her that he would sytisty them in the battlefield only. Malaya શ્રેણી ૪ ૬ ૧૨
