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

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last grand entertainment, which hospitality Charoo could
not well refuse, so he consented. Next day the birds
regaled him on the choicest and most delicate fruits, and in
the evening he took his leave and set out on his return.
The birds accompanied him a great distance, and expressed
much sorrow and many good wishes at parting.
“Charoo travelled with all haste to the city of Badrika-
dar: on approaching the cottage of the hermit he went in,
and communicated to him his success, at the same time
returning him sincere and heartfelt thanks for the valuable
information he had given him; and on the following day,
having received the hermit’s blessing, he renewed his jour-
ney. In a few days he arrived safely at the court of the king
of Kanchunpoory, who instantly recognised him, and received
him with every demonstration of pleasure and a right
hearty welcome. He led him to the apartment of the
princess, who expressed as much joy at his return as if he
were already her lawful husband. ‘Dear Charoo,’ said she,
‘I do not know how I shall be able to prove to you my
gratitude for so great a regard as you have shown for me in
the hazardous task you have performed. I see from your
face that you have succeeded. Please, then, disclose to me
all you know. I am so impatient to hear it that I have
not known a moment's rest since you left us, and I have
been continually watching for your return. Let me now
have the pleasure of listening to your adventures, in which
there must be a great deal of the wonderful.’ Charoo,
being thus pressed, after acknowledging her love and
sympathy, began his narrative. He had related about two-
thirds, when the princess desired him to stop, saying she
was perfectly satisfied, and declaring to the king her inten-
tion of receiving Charoo for her husband forthwith.
Preparations were accordingly made, in a style befitting the
occasion, for the celebration of the marriage.
“Had the Princess Chitrangee heard the whole relation
of Charoo’s adventures, she could not have fulfilled her
promise of marrying him, as she would on the instant have