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

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when his wife fell as it were into a swoon, and immediately
expired in his arms. Charoo thought she had merely fainted,
so he endeavoured by every means in his power to restore
her to animation, but to no purpose—she was past all
remedy. He cried loudly for help, and the attendants
poured in forthwith from every side, some of them
hastening to acquaint the king with the sad disaster.
The king and queen soon burst into the room together,
wild with frenzy and grief. Charoo communicated the
circumstances attending the demise, or swoon as he all
along took it to be, of the princess. A physician was
instantly sent for, who arrived in all haste, but in vain was
everything done that art and experience, combined with
great professional skill, could suggest. The whole place, as
may be supposed, was plunged into inconsolable grief by
this sad occurrence. The cries of Charoo rent the air, and
the king and queen were loud in their lamentations. As
soon as the news got abroad, the king's relatives, courtiers,
and officials all flocked round the corpse of the beautiful
princess, and not a dry eye was visible amongst the vast
number of men and women there assembled. After their
grief had a little subsided, preparations were made for the
funeral, at which Charoo himself performed the ceremony
of applying fire to the pile. The other obsequies, as usual
on such an occasion, were continued for twelve days, accord-
ing to the prescribed form.
"When Chitrangee's soul had re-entered her celestial
frame on the Chitrakoot mountain, she awoke as though
from a sound sleep, so sudden was the transition; and she
began at once to enjoy, as she had done before, more
perfect happiness than is ever known in the world, save in
imagination. The people of the place were also freed from
the temporary trance in which Charoo had found them when
he visited the city; and they resumed their business exactly
at the point at which it was discontinued when their anima-
tion had been suspended. Charoo's disarrangement of the
shopkeepers' goods caused now a disagreement between the