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90 in and informed her mother of the fact with great glee.

The mother, intent upon appropriating the new-comer's money, came out to see if he were a wealthy man, and perceiving him to be a poor Brahman, became enraged at her daughter. But the daughter gave a deaf ear to her mother's words, and insisted on possessing the Brahman. The mother consented, as she was unable to win her daughter over to her arguments. The Brahman did not rise the next morning, nor did he move a muscle. This made the mother inform the king of what had transpired, who immediately sent the palace doctors to the spot. They felt the pulse of the sleeping person, and went and informed the king that as, for some reason or other, he had had neither food nor sleep for six months past, his body should be smeared all over with boiled rice for some time, and if this were repeated for a time, he would enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber and would rise. After six months' tending, according to the doctor's advice, Chandrasarma rose one fine morning just as an ordinary person would, who