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

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No sooner did Vickramadetea assume his natural body,
than he ordered the attendants to catch the hare. This
command, so terrible to the hare, resounded throughout
the palace, and was echoed from mouth to mouth,—in fact
they had all been in some degree prepared for it. The hare
instantly skipped off, and hid himself in the kitchen, but
his pursuers followed him there, with shouts and cries, and
so belaboured him with the sticks with which they had
provided themselves as speedily to put an end to his existence.
They then brought the body to Vickramadetea, who ordered
it to be thrown to the dogs and birds of prey. This was
nothing more than the inhuman Koobjuck richly deserved.
Such are the inscrutable but invariable decrees of Provi-
dence! Though the wicked and the profane may for a
time seem to triumph in their evil courses,-the punishment
from on high sooner or later overtakes them in the midst
of their career. There is a great moral to be learned from
this, and to those of a contemplative turn of mind it
will afford sufficient food for consideration during their
leisure hours.
King Vickramadetea was much pleased at the successful
manner in which he had executed his plans, and thanked
God for his mercy towards him. He embraced the queen
in the first transport of his joy, and he was also profuse in
his thanks to the minister for all he had done. He also
sent for Somedut the brahmin, and extolled him in very
high and flattering terms for the trouble he had been at in
wandering through wilds and forest glens in search of
him, regardless of his own comfort. The next day Vickra-
madetea appeared in public, and ascended his throne amid
the acclamations and joyful greetings of his courtiers and
the whole assembled populace.
The inhabitants of Oojein had been getting gradually
reconciled to the hardness of the lot they experienced under
the iron sway of Koobjuck; consequently any change for
the better in their condition was as far removed from their
minds as any event could well be. Since the time Koob-