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ition to addiction. But virtue lies in not becoming an addict. No addict should forget that the act of addiction appears to give happiness but its effects are eqully painful and bitter.
A prostitute has neither sympathy nor love for any one in her heart. To her money is all in all. She kicks a most handsome person if he has no money. But she considers a moneyed man as Cupid, the God of Love, even if he is a leper, or a handi-capped, old or diseased person. She surrenders herself and everything to such person. Be that as it may, but Vayarsen embedded himself in pleasures and merriment by staying with the prostitute.
On the other hand, Amarsen had fallen into sound sleep in the royal park of Kanchanpur. The king of Kanchanpur had died. The king had no child. The throne of Kanchanpur was lying vacant in the absence of an heir-apparent. So the ministers and other royal officers
