Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.2461.2

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He replied that his enemies had done so, with the intention that he might die suffering severe pain for a long time. The Vaiśya's son stood still for a little while. Then he took his bath. With his wife he lived in the forest doing penance. The wounds of the man he saved had been healed. The Vaiśya's son, one day, went out to the forest to gather fruits and roots for their food. At that time his wife grew lustful and had coition with the man without limbs. Gradually she began to dote on him. She decided to kill her husband who was an impediment on her way. She pretended to be ill. The Vaiśya's son began to treat her. One day she took her husband to the edge of a very deep well and said: "See, there is a divine herb at the bottom of this well. I will be cured if I could eat it. This is what a goddess told me in a dream yesternight". Hearing this her husband made a rope, and tied it to a tree. Then he began to go down the well by the rope. She cut the rope and the man fell into the well. There was a passage from the well to the river. The current took him through that passage to the river. He got out of the river, and sat under a tree thinking of the wickedness of women. There was a city close by. At that time the King of the city was dead and there was no heir left. The subjects of the city brought an elephant and said, "whom ever this elephant takes and places on his back shall be our king". They sent the elephant out.