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

in company with any one, and let all this be accomplished .
by the middle of the day. The vemon* will then descend
from heaven, with instruments sounding to welcome your
arrival at the gates of Paradise, and the assembly of Indra
will bear you company. Return quickly home, and
perform all I have directed you to do." Upon hearing
these consoling words, and the promise of being taken up to
heaven, she retraced her steps with hope and great joy, after
having prostrated herself a second time before the idol, and
poured out a flood of enraptured thoughts, and expressions
of her willingness to act as she had been bidden. On her
arrival home she set about distributing her riches, which
consisted of money, jewels, horses, cattle, and all the other
paraphernalia of a prosperous household. She gave all
these to the beggars and brahmins who had crowded round
her residence when her resolution to give all she possessed
in charity had become known, and she was quite elated with
the idea that in return for all this sacrifice she was to be
translated to heaven. Those who profited by the benevo-
lence of the woman were one and all loud in their praise of
her person and her proficiency in singing, which had enabled
her to amass together so large a fortune as was then
displayed to their wondering eyes. She was quite gratified
at what she heard, and frequently said, by way of replying
to these encomiums, "If I merely bestow a small portion
of my wealth or goods in alms, I shall receive double for it
from Indra, when I shall have the opportunity, which I am
in a fair way of securing, of delighting him with my songs,"
little dreaming, poor deluded being, that the parrot had
even then commenced his revenge for what she had done
and had meditated doing. After having parted with all she
possessed, and the day also having drawn to a close, she
retired for the night, and prepared by sound and refreshing
sleep for the fatigues of the morrow. In the morning she
rose betimes, and, securing the attendance of a barber, as
she had been directed the previous day, set out to the temple,

• A celestial self-moving car.