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

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having been loaded with magnificent presents, and set forward on his journey. King Vickramadetea accom- panied him with his retinue for about a mile, and at parting expressed a deep sense of gratitude for the kind- ness the hermit had shown him in initiating him into the rare art of transmigration. Meanwhile, the spies who had been placed in different parts of the country to obtain information as to the virgin of seven years old, who, it had been foretold, would give birth to a son who would end the king's days, returned without being able to render any satisfactory account of their labours. Nothing was known or heard of this extra- ordinary virgin ; and, as a matter of course, in the absence of any knowledge of the mother it was impossible to ascertain whether the child fated to cause the death of the king was in existence or not. Thus was the king plunged into a wild maze of conjecture, without a clue to assist him in arriving at a satisfactory solution of the mystery.