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and the settled rule of his family. The ministers said, “O king! You become calm. We shall go to the queen and reconcile her mind." With the permission of the king, they went to the queen and tried to pursuade her in various ways, but her mind was not reconciled at all. The ministers then, greatly disappointed, went back to the king, and said, "O king! Indeed the queen's, wrath is intense. She may perhaps, have recourse to untimely death. It is better therefore to reconcile her mind by any means The king said, "Ab! What do you say! Do you not know the established usage of my family that when one prince is amusing himself in the pleasure-garden, another cannot enter it? For the present, with the advent of the Spring, prince Visvabhūti has been amusing himself with various sports in the pleasure-garden." The ministers said, O great king! We all know it. But the obstiDacy of a female is hard to be repressed." The king, then said with great remorse, "On one side, there is a violation of an established usage of my family, and on the other, there is death of my beloved wife. For the present, I am in a great calamity. The minds of firmly affectionate kinsmen and friends, will certainly be alienated in acco. rdance with a ruling of fate during this time of adversity. Besldes, the disgrace-that the king enslaved by a woman does not think of what is appropriate and what is not-will uninterruptedly spread in all the directions and will continue to exist for a long time. Therefore, O ministers I now find out some pure remedy by which the queen will remain allve and the established usage of the family be preserved.” On hearing this, the ministers saying “ Just as your Majesty orders,” met in a solitary place, and having thoroughly decided on the true nature of the work with their clever Intellect, they informed the king :
"O great king ! Under such circumstances, it is quite appropriate that messengers carrying letters and written documents should bring letters with the intimation that a certain feudatory prince of the neighbouring village, has become insolent and that he has been devastating the surrounding country, and they should give these letters to you. On reading those letters, you should give orders for the marching of an army against him. All the
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