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189 Lutufonissa said, "In order to separate you and your husband for ever."

Kopal-Kundala began to ponder, and said, "How would you have accomplished that?"

Lutufonissa. For the present I should have caused your husband to doubt your chastity. But there is no necessity to speak of that, as I have abandoned that course. Now if you act according to my advice, my wish will be accomplished through you, and it will be to your benefit.

Kopa. Whose name did you hear in the month of the Homkári?

Lu. Your name. To find out if he was sacrificing for your good or your evil, I made him an obeisance and satesat [sic] near him. I satesat [sic] there till his rites were finished. At the end of the sacrifice I asked him the meaning of the sacrifice in which your name occurred. After some talk with him, I came to know that the object of the sacrifice was to injure you. That, too, was my object, and I told him so. There and then we bound ourselves to aid one another, and, in order to take