Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.379
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t2.379
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The lovely queen Kinnarā misbehaves herself daily with a crippled, loathsome "ghost of a man" lying in the shade of the rose-apple tree down near the palace itself. The king—Kandari—comes to know about this, and orders her to be beheaded. But the Chaplain, here also, comes with his worldly knowledge, saying "All women are just the same. If you are anxious to see how immoral women are, I will show you their wickedness and deceitfulness." He does show it, and the king pardons her but throws her away out of the palace.¹