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( 112. 19. on the eyes while the queen is looking, etc.--they may be given after being taken out.” Then thinking so, he gave his own opinion excepting ( the opinion about ) the child, the queen would deliver. The king liked it very much. Matisāgara said to the queen. “My lady, I shall take out the bowels of the king in such a manner that he would not die." On account of the crueIty of the disposition of the child in the womb, she acceded to it. The remedy was put in practice and her pregnancy-desire was fulfilled. Then while she came to dejection (112] the king was shown to her. Then she was consoled and then the minister said to her, “The birth of the son, as you are under first delivery, is not to be first declared to the king but it should be declared to me. Then I shall do the needful.” She consented to it. Some other time, at the proper moment, the queen delivered. Matisagara was informed by her. He said to the queen. “This child bodes ill for the king. Hence away with it; let it grow up elsewhere; and this opinion should be conveyed to the king."She said, "It is proper that the minister has said just as my heart would." Then the boy was taken away by the maidservant named Madhavikā. She went a little distance. In the meantime the king saw her. He asked her, "What is that?" Then trembling and confused Madhavikā said, “It is nothing." In the meantime, the child wept. Then, seeing the child, the angry king said, “O sinful woman, what is this being done ?” Then Mãdhavikā said the whole account out of the cowardice natural to the disposition of a woman. Then he took up the child. He thought, “These maids should not have again a hand in this." The child was entrusted to
