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L'ARISISTAT.ART 1X
Once hc uns made to perform before the king and the queen When he recognised the queen as his former companion, he burst unto 1ca, repenting of his foolishness
Jamli iclatra I'he 7th Yory of the chuconl.burner (132–413)
I charcon l-Birner going to the woods had provılcd himself with plenty of water Honorer, he grew 40 thirstr bir hus worh, that he had soon pent 114 proton and was obliged to go in purch of more watci (recping along in a scorching sun he troppel clausted in the lade of a trec The coolness somehow icfleshed lim, “o that he fell asleep He creamt that he was quaflug the water of many wells tanks, etc but not yet satisfied hic eam to an old well, from the bottom of which lic liched up the mudils remnant of water
Resembling him in a man who, larmy in former births enjoy ou the clelights of heaven is still attracted by the emptr pleasures of human life
Parimaucni then told
The 8th story (446-040) of the cunning woman with the anklet. anil of the jachal
Devacunnn son of Deradatta a goldsmith in Räjagrla, liad married a slirewd beauty Durgılā. Once she bathed in the river and was seen by a young man who instantly fell in love with her He succeeded in making sure that she Icturned he love and then enquired of some hows her name and the place where she lived He emploved an old nun as a go-betucen. Inut Durgilā who was just scouring sooty ressels first reviled hier as a procures, and then bcat her with her hand The lover, hou ever, heard paticntly the lamentations of the old woman, for hc sau at once that the impression of Durgilā s hand with the fire fingers stretched out? which the nun showed him on her back, meant that they should meet on the fifth mght of the waning noon, but he did not know w here So the go-between had again to face Durgılā but fared
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1 Kathā Sant Sagara Vol II p 237
