Bhojaprabandha 36_121

36_121

[O brother,] you watch persons equal to yourself in caste, age, and form being carried away by death, yet you feel no fear; therefore, your heart is indeed like an adamant thunderbolt.
Then Vatsarāja, overcome with remorse, said to Bhoja, 'Forgive me,' bowed down to him, seated him in a chariot, brought him outside the city in the darkness to a house, hid him inside an underground chamber, and thus protected Bhoja. Having himself had an artificial head of prince Bhoja crafted by artisans skilled in illusion—adorned with beautiful earrings, with a radiant face and closed eyes—his younger brother took it, went to the royal palace, bowed down to the king, and said: 'What Your Majesty commanded has been accomplished.'