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j ליס ] his palace for ever. The goddess then discovered herself, and reminded him of her former blessing and promised aid, until he drove her from his presence, and to prove to him that her words were true, and that she would no longer assist such a tyrannical monster, she caused the temple he had built towards the West to be changed from its original position on the South, and that he should henceforth be left to himself. It was after this occurrence that Maun Sing made his appearance at Issureepoor, and after a severe battle, in which many thousands on the both sides fell, Pertab Audit was taken prisoner and carried in an iron cage to Delhi. He took the precaution, when in the iron cage, to have a pair of very handsome pigeons in a cage with him, to endeavour therewith to purchase his release from the Emperor; but told his servants before his departure, that in the event of his being condemned to death all his family were to go out on the river in a boat, and there sink it, when all would be exterminated together. When the Rajah was brought before the Emperor at Delhi, prostrated himself before him and sought his mercy, on account of his previous good reign, before he was tempted by the goddess Kalee. The Emperor overlooked the Rajah’s offences, set him at liberty, and restored him to his throne. Fortune, however, had turned against him; he had left his two pigeons in the cage with the door open, and whilst before the omperor, the birds escaped and flew back to Issureepoor, which his family no sooner perceived, than they