r w i woman with a child at her back, she went to Karur, where in high market she beheld Karibhanta, and claimed him as her husband, accusing him of having - abandoned her and her child. The matter was re-
- ferred to arbitration. Karibhanta insisted that his
life was indangerin the company of the Ogress, but the arbitrators, seven in number, thinking this only mockery, decided against him, and shut him up in a chamber with his wife, promising if any harm hap- pened to him they would give up their lives. In the morning Karibhanta was found dead ; on hearing of which Pundarikakshi, the mother of Karibhanta, and his intended bride, the daughter of Veldla Ray a y & hastened to Karur to perish with the bo- dy : a funeral pile was prepared accordingly in which the seven judges, Pundarikakshi and the mother of the hero, successively perished. When the Princess was about to follow them, she repeated an invocation to Siva, who immediately appeared to her, and pro- mised to grant her any boon she might solicit. She requested that her husband and the rest might be restored to life,which accordingly came to pass, and Karibhanta returned with his two brides, and his mother to his paternal kingdom, over which he reign- ed long and happily , III. — Sarangdhara Cheritra.
Palm leaves. The Canara version of the popular story of Sd«
