Twenty-fourth pupil Karunavati
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| Story-Vikramaditya Sinhasan Battisi |
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The story told by Karunavati, the twenty-fourth pupil, is as follows - All the time of King Vikramaditya was spent in redressing the miseries of his subjects.
He did not ignore any problem of the people. He was aware of all the problems, so he used to roam around the whole state in disguise at night, sometimes here and there. And used to know the condition of the subjects.
Thieves and bandits also knew about this habit, so the incidents of crime used to be sporadic.
Vikram wanted the crime to be completely eradicated so that people could travel fearlessly from one place to another and sleep peacefully.
One such night, Vikram was roaming in a part of the state disguised, when he saw a bow hanging from a big building.
With the help of this bow, surely a thief must have gone to the top floor, thinking that he reached the top with the help of the bow.
He took his sword in his hands so that when confronted he could put the thief to death.
Just then, he stood close to the wall of the room where the voice was coming from, thinking of the woman's low voice in his ears.
A woman was asking someone to go to the next room and kill someone.
He said that without killing that man it is impossible to have a relationship with anyone else.
Then a male voice said that he must be a robber, but it is not possible for him to take the life of an innocent person.
He was asking the woman to go with him to some distant place and was trying to make her believe that he had so much money that both of them would live comfortably for the rest of their lives. The woman finally asked him to come the next day, as it would have taken him at least twenty-four hours to collect the money.
The king understood that the man is the lover of that woman and the woman is the wife of the Seth who has this building. Seth is sleeping in the adjoining room and Sethani was provoking her lover to kill him.
The king came down holding Kamand and waited for that lover.
After a while Sethani's lover came down from Kamand, the king put his sword on his neck and told him that Vikram was standing in front of him.
The man trembled with fear, and his neck was tied in fear of the death penalty. When the king promised not to give him the death penalty for telling the truth, he told his story as follows:
I loved her since childhood and dreamed of marrying her. I also had a lot of money because my father was a very big businessman.
But all my dreams of a happy future were left behind.
One day my father's ship full of money was robbed by pirates. On hearing the news of the robbery, my father's heart was so shocked that he lost his life.
We became bankrupt. Taking those pirates as the cause of my destruction, I set out to take revenge on them.
After many years of stumbling, I finally got to know him. And with great difficulty won his trust and joined his team.
I would kill any one as soon as I got the opportunity. One by one I wiped out the entire party and returned home with the money they had collected from the loot.
The man fell at the feet of the king weeping and prayed for his sin to be pardoned.
The king gave him many awards for gallantry and truthfulness in lieu of the death sentence. The man's eyes had opened.
On the second day at night, disguised as that lover, he reached his girlfriend with the help of a bow.
As soon as they arrived, the woman gave him a large bag of gold ornaments as her lover and said that she killed Seth by feeding him poison and after selecting all the gold ornaments and diamonds and jewels, filled it in this bag.
When the king did not say anything, he became suspicious and pulled off his fake beard and mustache. Seeing another man, she started shouting 'thief-thief' and started mourning for the king as the murderer of her husband.
The king's soldiers and city kotwal were hiding below.
They came running and on the orders of the king arrested that murderous characterless woman.
It did not take long for that woman to understand that the man who came in disguise was Vikram himself. He quickly took out the vial of poison and drank the poison.
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