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"Devi I am already sitting in the box."
Timingali's work was finished. So she put the box in her mouth and kept it tightly clossed. Next day which was the eighteenth day she thought:
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"Seventeenth day is over. The marriage of Princess Ghandravati could take place. Now let it take place on any day. But Ravana the ruler of Lanka, has falsified the destiny as told by astrologers."
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So thinking Timingali Lanka with the box tightly pressed in her mouth. The box was kept in the palace-hall. Ravana then called the astrologers through his servants. He then said:
"Oh astrologers, I now open the box in your very presence and show how I have undone the destiny."
Ravana opened the box. He was won
