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123 analekhã and others and asked them with special regard; "Is it proper for you, who have heard the context, to disregard the queen weakening like the digit of the moon in the dark half ? This dejection does not belong to the range of unattainable objects; because the queen is the very essence of my self. Which is that thing which while I am holding life is not obtained by the queen ?" Madanalekhã said " Your majesty, it is like this; here the fault lies only with the incivility natural to a woman. May your majosty then hear. My lord, it is not even proper to say. Still however [111] as there is no other way, it is to be said." The king said, “Indeed, it is a matter worthy of confusion; for that which is attainable by any way, can be done by oneself; all else only can be told. Hence you may tell what is the truth in this.” Then confused Madanalekhả narrated the aftair ending in an attempt towards abortion on account of the fault of pregnancy-desire, arising out of the child in the womb. The king thought, “What great love the queen bears towards me that she does not even much mind the birth of the child! Let not there be the dislodging of the child in the womb due to the non-fulfilment of her pregnacy-desire. Hence I should think out a remedy."He said to the queen's attendents,"You should do that which I shall tell you proper for the time.” He called his prime minister named Matisāgara. He told him this account. The minister thought,“The action of the queen is quite in keeping.So let not there be pain to her body by this remedy. Therefore this is the remedy:-putting the artificial bowels outside the belly of the king while he is hungry and having made them well-adjusted by putting a magic veil on
