विक्रम चरित (उज्जैन सम्राट् विक्रमादित्य - पराक्रम, न्याय एवं ३२ पुतलियों की कथा सटीक)

' 100 up to her as if calling on her to recal those terms of oppro- brium she had cast upon this innocent victim of circumstantial evidence. ‘My dear and affectionate child,’ said the aged queen, ‘ I am sorry for what I in my passion, and under the fullest impression of your infidelity, launched on your innocent head. I am fully sensible of the wrong I have done you, but let me hope that my future conduct towards you will in some degree atone for it.’ ‘ Ah!’ said the princess, ‘ do not say so; all that befals us is decreed by an unerring Providence. Had you not caused me to be expelled the palace, I might probably have never been enabled to find means for the recovery of my lost husband : it is to you that I am indebted for this happiness. Say not, then, that you have wronged me. The happiness of this moment more than atones for any amount of privation I may have been put to, and the latter has been but very slight indeed, comparatively.’ The king and queen were highly pleased at this disposition on the part of the injured princess to forget the past : if it were possible, it raised her in their estimation in an unparalleled degree, and they embraced her, with contrition and tears of joy streaming down their furrowed cheeks. It was too great a happiness for them to regain their son, whom they had never expected to see again in this life, and at the same time to find his wife, whom it was now evident they had unjustly expelled the palace, placed beyond suspicion, with a fine young king the fruit of their union. King Bhudrasain, after this, ordered a banquet to be prepared in honour of the great event we have recorded,—the meeting together of this dispersed family,—and it was kept up with all the splendour of royalty. In a short time he also caused his son, Prince Soorsain, to be crowned in his stead, and invested with the royal dignity. “ The youthful Balsain, during this visit, became smitten with the charms of a neighbouring princess, and was soon after married. After some weeks spent in con- viviality, he took leave of his father and grandsire, and