विक्रम चरित (उज्जैन सम्राट् विक्रमादित्य - पराक्रम, न्याय एवं ३२ पुतलियों की कथा सटीक)

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having been loaded with magnificent presents, and set
forward on his journey. King Vickramadetea accom-
panied him with his retinue for about a mile, and at
parting expressed a deep sense of gratitude for the kind-
ness the hermit had shown him in initiating him into the
rare art of transmigration.
Meanwhile, the spies who had been placed in different
parts of the country to obtain information as to the virgin
of seven years old, who, it had been foretold, would give
birth to a son who would end the king's days, returned
without being able to render any satisfactory account of
their labours. Nothing was known or heard of this extra-
ordinary virgin ; and, as a matter of course, in the absence
of any knowledge of the mother it was impossible to
ascertain whether the child fated to cause the death of the
king was in existence or not. Thus was the king plunged
into a wild maze of conjecture, without a clue to assist him
in arriving at a satisfactory solution of the mystery.