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Bhojaprabandha 87_246

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Admitted into the royal assembly by the king, those scholars, seeing the king's assembly, began to recite the verse all together. Hearing it, the king understood that the second half was composed by Kālidāsa, and said to the brahmins: "Poetry should never again be produced from the mouth of whoever made the first half of the verse. Something is granted for the second half, not for the first half." Having spoken thus, he gave a hundred thousand for every syllable.