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"What should I do now? If I lose her then what becomes of me ?"
He tried to pursuade the queen and to appease her by promising that he would purchase parrots better than that. But the wrath of the queen was not pacified. She very well knew that the parrot can be resurrected only by transfering the soul from another body to the body of the parrot. She wanted to make the king's body freed from the soul of Krishnapakshika mimister. So she emphaticaly said :
"If you can't make the parrot alive get the funeral pyre prepared for me."
The minister was now convinced that without making the Parrot alive, he will not be able to keep the queen alive. So he went to an adjoining room, lied down on the cot and he took out his life from the body of the king and transfered it to the parrot's body.
The queen pretended that she has been pleased. She began to fondle the
