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.. .: 256 Being thus secure, his only desire was now to contact the beautiful queen. Nivrutti and to enjoy life in her company as a life-partner. So he walked fast and reached the city. The people not knowing this fraud, accorded a warm welcome to the ‘king'.
Krishnapakshika then pretended to be very sad with the loss of his minister. He told a blunt lie that the minister sacrificed his life in order to save him when one lion attacked them. Thus he himself was saved.
Being successful so far, he was very much impatient to meet the queen Nivrutti.
But Nivrutti was after all, a daughter of a Vidyadhar and she was most chasie. The relation of husband and wife is the relation between two souls. So, Nivrutti had the clear intuition that it was the soul of wicked minister in the physical vody of the king. The minister, though
