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The woman smiled cunningly and replied :
“The people of Kausambi think that I am the wife of Samudradatta.”
The king was now more surprised. He asked further :
“You tell frankly who you are really. How that Shraman was the bad books of yours ? There will be no difference in the type of punishment by your true or false answers !"
Nandinee started saying. “O king ? I am Dhanshree the wife of a buisnessman named Dhandev. My husband had a friend named 'Nandak.' We loved one another. So I first gave poison to Dhandev to remove him from our path of love. Then both of us threw him into the sea. The whole ship was now in the possession of Samudradatta.
Thus we came to Kausambi.
