C 53 } dertook the task, and succeeded in tracing the shoe to its own-* er, to whom she introduced herself, and made herself agreeable. Finding out that Chitrasekhara owed his personal immunity from danger to a charmed Ear-ring, she contrived to steal it from him whilst asleep, defaced the impression of Siva which it bore, and threw it into the fire, on which Chitrasekhara be* came as dead. Suvernadevi would have slain herself, but was prevented bjr the Crowe, who to console her, promised to gether another hus« band in Ugrabdhu, and this proposal, as holding out the pros* pect of revenge, was seemingly assented to- by the widow. She. set out for the capital of Ugrabdhu, shutting up her husband's, corpse in a chamber, and leaving with it a written note to Chi* rasekhara, informing him what had chanced, and whither she was gone, and. promising to wait a month for his arrival,, at the end of which term she would put an end to her life. The wife of Chitrasekhara at the time of her brother in law's decease was apprised of the event by the decay and death of the flower. As soon as this was known to her husband, he set off for Hemavati. On his way he met a monkey, who in his gambols plunged into a pool and came out a man, and a little further on leaped into another pool, and issued a monkey as before. Some of the water productive of these changes was taken by Chitrasekhara, and carried with him. On arriving at the place where his dead brother lay, and rea* {ling the note which Suvernadevi had left, Chitrasekhara searched for the charmed Ear-ring, which he found defaced and injured, but not wholly destroyed, on which account the body of Somasekhara had so long resisted decay. Chitrasek* hara set himself to work to repair the Ear-ring, and as soon as it was restored to its former condition, Somasekhara revived. The brothers after communicating to each other, what had passed, proceeded to Kusumakesari to release Suvernadevi and
