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As was the custom then, Jindatta was applied red coloured sandal-paste all over his body and was taken round the whole city, before execution.
Jinmati also was seeing the procession from the balcony. Tears came out of her eyes. Jindatta looked up and saw that she was weeping.
He thought :
'I have done great injustice to this religious lady by turning down the proposal of my marriage with her. And yet she sheds tears out of pity for me. If, by the grace of God, I am saved, then I will certainly marry her.
Jindatta was brought to the place of execution. Hundreds of people thronged to see the act. All of them hated the king Jitshatru and Vasudatta for wrongly punisihing the innocent man.
Jipmati determined to save the life of her would be husband. She went to the temple for worshipping Shasandevi, the
