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

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the queen would expire on that day, and that he was pre-
pared to impart to her the knowledge which she was so
anxious to become possessed of. He told him to go and
enquire of the queen if she was prepared to receive him.
The minister, in obedience to the order he had received,
went to the queen and made her acquainted with Koobjuck's
request. She replied that she was as anxious as ever to be
initiated into the mystery, and that after the king should
have satisfied her in that respect she would place herself
entirely at his disposal. The minister returned and com-
municated this to Koobjuck, who heard it with much plea-
sure, and ordered his attendants to procure for him the
dead body of some animal, no matter of what kind, or of any
species of bird. They accordingly went out in search of one.
The wicked Koobjuck, in the mean while, went into the
queen's apartment, accompanied by the minister, and after
the usual interchange of civilities they sat down. Koobjuck
was priding himself on the wit and discernment he displayed
in a flow of flattering encomiums he was bestowing on the
queen, when the attendants whom he had sent out returned
with a dead hare. Having taken the hare and placed it
beside him, he addressed the queen and said, "My chaste
wife! the idol of my heart!—I beg you will be pleased to
cast your eyes upon me, and I will show you in a few
minutes the most wonderful miracle ever witnessed." The
parrot was a silent listener to all that was being said, and
an observer likewise of all that was going forward,—he was
concealed under the folds of the queen's garment. Koob-
juck, having secured the attention of the queen, commenced
to work the charm, and in a short time he left the human
body, which was that of Vickramadetea, and entered the
body of the hare, which began to show signs of life, and at
last skipped about with all the sprightliness of life and
health. The parrot, observing this, instantly cast off his
body and entered that of Vickramadetea, and thus
regained his own form, which had been so long forcibly
kept from him by the wicked and ungrateful Koobjuck.