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

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this temple is dedicated, as you found me a short time ago.
Twelve long years have rolled over my head since I first saw
the princess. I reside in the city of Chundragerry; my
father is named Chundrasain, a powerful king, who still
reigns in that kingdom. My name is Duntsain. I love this
princess too much to hope for any peace of mind while we
remain apart from each other. I came down here to make
another essay of my courage; but the arduous condition
attached to the winning of the princess has quite wearied
me. Still my passion for her is daily gaining strength,
and I cannot restrain it. Death would indeed be pre-
ferable to remaining in this dreadful state of agitation and
suspense.”
During this narration, the prince became much affected,
and appeared pressed down by the weight of his grief.
The brahmin, however, assured him that if he would have a
little patience and moderate his grief, he would in a few
days put him in a way to become possessed of the object of
his affection; and, after adding some further words of
consolation, he withdrew.
The brahmin, having left the prince, seated himself in the
shade of the nearest tree, and racked his brains, not how to
bring about the wishes of the unfortunate prince he had
just returned from, but how to gain some information of his
sovereign, the good and beloved Vickramadetea. The sun
having run his course, was now fast giving place to the
shades of evening, and the refreshed traveller once more was
afoot, and wending his onward course. A few hours’ smart
walking brought him to the city of Sendoornuggry. As he
approached it he walked in the direction of a temple erected
in the outskirts of the town, with a beautiful lake beside it.
It was the same temple and lake, as our readers will have
surmised, in which the parrot sought refuge after his narrow
escape from death at the hands of the inhuman cook of the
famed actress. The traveller entered the temple, and paid
his devotions to the goddess Kallika, and then returned to
the inviting shade of the clump of trees on the borders of