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The eleventh Anga [ I. Lect. 9. heed to them). Then the four hundred ninty nine (499), mothers of those remaining four hundred and ninty nine queens, having got the intelligence about this matter that the king Sihasena, their husband, thus, being greatly enamoured of the queen Sāmā, did not honour or pay heed to their daughters and passed his time without honouring or paying heed to them, thought thus : "It is good for us therefore, to kill the queen Sāmā by means of fire, poison or weapons." They thoughi so and awaited the several opportunities (lit. intervals, weak-points and holes) of killing queen Sāmā. Then that queen Sāmā, getting intimation about this matter spoke thus: "Truly, oh lord ! thè five hundred mothers of my five hundred co-wives having got the intelligence about this matter and so forth as above, down to spoke thus to each other : Truly, Sihasena (here the rest to be supplied as above, down to) await the opportunities. Therefore, I don't understand by what wretched death they will kill me," and having done so she, greatly afraid as she was, went to where the Anger-house ‘kovagahara' (a room or house where queens pass their time when angry) was and having done SO she began to brood over the matter being depressəd at heart. Then that king Sihasena, coming to know about this matter, went to where the Anger-house was and where queen Sāmā was and having done so he found queen Sāmā brooding over the matter being depressed at heart, and having done so he spoke thus : “Oh, you, beloved of the gods ! why
