Bhojaprabandha 36_128

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do not touch me, alas, alas, a son-slayer!' Wailing like an osprey, he called the doorkeepers and said: 'Bring the brahmins!' Then, bowing to the brahmins who had arrived at his command, he spoke to them, saying: 'I have killed my son; declare an expiation for it!' They said to him: 'O king, immediately enter the fire!' / After that, revived by the air created by the hem of the sari being waved by the lotus-like hands of the queen, the king wailed like an osprey, 'Queen, do not touch me, the murderer of a son!' and summoned the doorkeepers, saying: 'Bring the brahmins.' Thereafter, bowing to the brahmins who had arrived at his command, he said: 'I have murdered my son; declare the expiation for it.' As he was saying this, the brahmins said to him: 'O king, enter the fire at once.'