Storia do Mogor 265.3.1

265.3.1

On hearing this answer, the prince laughed and said : ' For this speech I want to give you your liberty ; what have you to give me ?' Tevara replied : ' If you release me, I will give you forty thousand pagodas' worth of precious stones.' ' What security shall I have ?' responded the prince. ' My chief wife shall be left as hostage,' replied the other ; ' but you will have to swear not to touch her.' The prince was satisfied, but just then the general came in, made over his staff to the prince, and said that if he liberated Tevara he would turn jogi, or wanderer. As for the forty millions promised, he undertook to give double on condition that in his presence the prisoner were ordered to be killed. The prince asked Tevara how he wished to die. He replied that he should like to die at the hands of the Madura general. But first let them cut off one leg and one arm; let a sword be made over to him, and another put in the hands of the general. Thus fighting, his life could be taken. The prince ordered the prisoner to be mutilated in his presence. To this he retorted by abusive language. In this manner they went on removing one limb after another. But he had such endurance that he uttered much abuse both of the prince and of his general. Finally he was decapitated.