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The Kathá Sarit Ságara

Note 4 — Chapter LII

C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation

There is on the earth a city, rightly named Śúrapura,4 and in it there lived a king named Mahávaráha, the destroyer of his foes. That king had a daughter named Anangarati, born to him by his wife Padmarati, owing to his having propitiated Gaurí, and he had no other children. And in course of time she attained womanhood, and proud of her beauty, she did not wish to have any husband, though kings asked her in marriage. But she said decidedly; “I must be given to a man who is brave and handsome, and knows some one splendid accomplishment.

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