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seen this, Kusumávali got up with confusion. Thinking this to be inauspicious, she did not tell this dream to the husband. She, as the child in the womb developed, did not resquest the king, out of the malice of the child. The king was all the more full of love. The servants said to her, “ Lady, this is not proper.” She said, “ What do I do?” The servants said, “ You do not respect the king.” She said, “Indeed, this must be the fault of the child in the womb.” Now her pregnancy-desire took place, namely, “I shall eat the bowels of the king." She thought, “ The child in my womb is a sinner; hence enough of it.” Out of feminine disposition and love for the husband a way of action came upon her, “I shall abort it.” Then on referring to the principal attendants on account of the gravity of the action, they consented to it and she did not fall out dead on account of the taint of the thickly crusted action. [110] Then she became weak on account of the pregnancy-desire not being fulfilled and by drinking many medicines. The king asked, “Oh fair one, what do you not get?Who has broken your order? What unfair have I done to you, that you grow weak with dejection like a lily-plant with insufficient water?" Then, Kusumãvali said with her heart full of love “Sir, my dejection is such as I think I should kill myself.” The king said “For what cause is this dejection?” Kusumivali said "Sir, ask my fate.” Saying so, she had ber eyes full of tears and was choked. Then the king, thinking that her dejection was great and that he should leave the matter at that story, gave up that matter and began another topic. Again he called the attendent Mad
