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had a suspicion in his mind :-"I myeels must be the child who was left under the shade of the tree. If it be so, the words of the cow, also turn out to be true." Vaiśyāyana, then, gave her twice the amount of money. On his return through that locality, be could not see the cow with her calf, and so, he thought :-'Ah ! really, some deity bas prevented me from doing an unworthy act, by showing me that incident,
On his return home with his cart, Vaiśyāyana carefully inquired of his parents as to how he was acquired They said, "O child, you were born in our family. Do not entertain false notions. Who will nourish other's children" But when Vaśyā. yana abstained from taking food with great pertenacity, they told him the true story, and Vaiśyāyana was perfectly convinced that the prostitute was his own mother,
Vaiśyāyana, then, went to Campă Nagari, and narrating the whole account to the prostitute, he said, “I am your game son who had been left under the tree." On a recollection of her previous incident with the robbers, she was immensely afflicted by her coquettish words uttered in the beginning of contemplated illegal intercourse during their woful time of separation, and having covered her lovely face with her upper garment, she lamented thus with a very loud cry :-“ An wicked, shameless ignoble, pitiless, and relentless Fate! During the prolixity of the acme of desecration could you not meet with any other person that you united a graceful female of noble fainily like myself to the profession of a prostitute, which is defiling to a vistuous womau and which is contradictory to moral laws of both the worli's, (this world and the next )! You did not more-over, stop there, but you became ready to contrive my sexual inter. course with my own son. Such a heinous act is nowhere heard of even in any scriptural writings. If the rabbers had killed me previously at that critical moment I would not to-day have an unfortunate opportunity of experiencing sa extremely up worthy and highly censurable inisdeed. Ab i should I fall into a deep well or should I commit a suicide by a ught noore around my throat or by an instantaneous obstruction of ait-passages ! Only
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