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EMANCIPATION OF THE FEMALES
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The pointless show of force saw thousands and thousands of harmless citizens butchered How, then were the palace and the female apartments to be spared by the tyrant? Dharını and Vasumatı were subjected to the cruellest bestiality humanity has ever seen Kakmukh, a braggadoci that he was, said, 'I cared tuppence for the riches I dashed straight to the palace A little resistance was put up by the enemy forces However, I made my way to the female apartment and kid- napped the queen, I needed a consort I felt she shall be my consort 1 abducted the princess also When in need of wealth I would dispose her off'
The bragging of Kakmukh shocked the queen The jolt to her tender heart was awful She swooned Young Vasumatı attempted to bring her mother to senses But the swoon was interminable Her heart-beats, failing to remedy her anguish, themselves failed
He kidnapped the queen and his lashing tongue brought her to her doom The inert corpse was left behind
The expiry of the queen converted the heart of Kakmukh He grew wiser by experience Once again he was humane He retrospected his foul deeds He regretted his devilish acts of kidnapping and abduction During excitement man loses his sanity and wisdom In lucid moments he retrospects with compunction the futility of his deeds It is so with each individual But the deed having been committed in the heat of the moment, the belated sanity scarcely purges one of the sin The right hand of Kakmukh was dyed red with his gory sins And still his left hand seemed to be innocent The likelihood of the latter also dipping itself in innocent blood terrified him He had fully exposed his callousness before Vasumatı His tear-filled eyes begged of her pardon The heart-broken Kakmukh went to Kaushambi with bereaved Vasumatı
Trafficking in human beings was prevalent then We are used to trafficking in cattle Trafficking in men was as common then The sold-off man served as a slave to the buyer and was treated as chattel Man carried a far smaller worth then Man,
