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132 her hair dishevelled, breathing out a sigh, fell at the feet of her paramour, and said, do you ever thus chastise any of your servants who may fall into error? If you wish to save me, save me, else I will hang myself. After she had used many entreaties, the Cutwal said, I will listen to you only on condition that you bring me the head of your husband. The woman agreeing to this with pleasure, quickly returned to her house, cut off the head of her husband while he was asleep, and returned to the Cutwal, who seeing the head of the royal youth, and the conduct of the woman, said to her after much deliberation, how strong must be your affection for me! let us depart, we can no longer continue in this country, let us retire to some other region, and live in a domestic way as man and wife. Having said this he departed with her. In the way they found a little stream. On approaching it, the Cutwal deceitfully proposed to pass over her ornaments first, after which, said he, I will cross you' over on my shoulder. He then stripped her, bound up the ornaments in one of her garments, and taking them across the stream, said to her, you have decapitated your husband through an attachment to your paramour; with a woman of so vile a dispo