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

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this temple is dedicated, as you found me a short time ago. Twelve long years have rolled over my head since I first saw the princess. I reside in the city of Chundragerry; my father is named Chundrasain, a powerful king, who still reigns in that kingdom. My name is Duntsain. I love this princess too much to hope for any peace of mind while we remain apart from each other. I came down here to make another essay of my courage; but the arduous condition attached to the winning of the princess has quite wearied me. Still my passion for her is daily gaining strength, and I cannot restrain it. Death would indeed be pre- ferable to remaining in this dreadful state of agitation and suspense.” During this narration, the prince became much affected, and appeared pressed down by the weight of his grief. The brahmin, however, assured him that if he would have a little patience and moderate his grief, he would in a few days put him in a way to become possessed of the object of his affection; and, after adding some further words of consolation, he withdrew. The brahmin, having left the prince, seated himself in the shade of the nearest tree, and racked his brains, not how to bring about the wishes of the unfortunate prince he had just returned from, but how to gain some information of his sovereign, the good and beloved Vickramadetea. The sun having run his course, was now fast giving place to the shades of evening, and the refreshed traveller once more was afoot, and wending his onward course. A few hours’ smart walking brought him to the city of Sendoornuggry. As he approached it he walked in the direction of a temple erected in the outskirts of the town, with a beautiful lake beside it. It was the same temple and lake, as our readers will have surmised, in which the parrot sought refuge after his narrow escape from death at the hands of the inhuman cook of the famed actress. The traveller entered the temple, and paid his devotions to the goddess Kallika, and then returned to the inviting shade of the clump of trees on the borders of