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at the thought of his father, he cancelled the idea. He knew that the father will not bear the pain of separation.
'For my happiness, I will not make my father unhappy. I will bear the scoldings of my mother, but I will not make my father desperate.'
Looking to the modesty and innocensce of Sikhee, any mother would regard herself as most fortunate in getting such a son. But Jalinee was an exception to this. The result of Vengence had reached to its highest limit. Because it is said that a son may be a bad son, but the mother does not become a bad mother. But here in this case, the mother had far advanced than being a bad mother.
We must take this to be a treachery of karmas. Jalinee was cultured, faithful and was a Brahmin. Jalinęe forsook her son as soon as she gave delivery, but because she became childless- afterwards,
