INTRODUCTION jucts. The maiclen, then, is forced by her father to marry the King's Commander-in-chief Abhiparaga ; this marriage is actually performed (only the ceremony of tying the “ Tali " or the sacred eniblem to the neck) when the lady was in unconscious state due to her protest and persistence to marry the king and none else. The consummation of this marriage could never be obtained. The lady ffatly refused in her conscious state to give her hand to any one but the King. The Commander-in-chief learns about this and begins to treat the lady as the queen of his master. The King observes the maiden and her pining condition in a great national festival, when all the ladies of the City were eagerly looking at the procession. He saw theauty and contentment in every face and this single exception naturally struck him. He makes further cnquiries, pursues the matter and finds the truth ; but he statly refuses to accept the lady as his wife, although the Commander-in-Chief, the nominal husband, freely offers her to the King. The lady, after knowing all this, immediately goes to the pleasure park where the king was rambling alone and entreats him in manifold ways to accept her as his wife, but, after all, commits suicide at not being able to marry the king. The king too had often promised that he was ready to give even his life to the languishing lady, but would
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