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

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to bestow every possible care on the princess, the sweet
relict of him whom he mourned,—to afford her all the
assistance she stood in need of, to calm the violence of her
grief, and above all, not to lose sight of her on any account.
“ One day the widowed princess, having arrived at the
age of puberty, took a bath, and was proceeding through
one of the corridors of the palace to an upper apartment, to
dry her hair in the rays of the sun, when she overheard an
able astrologer, named Dhanoo Patuckh, saying to his son,
who dwelt close to her mansion, ‘ Oh my son ! you will
confer on me a great favour, and much oblige me, if you
will not as usual go to that strange woman, but remain at
home and share your bed with your true and lawful wife;
for it is predicted, by an auspicious omen in the science of
astrology, that if a man have sexual intercourse with his
wife at the hour of midnight, and she become pregnant of a
son, that this son will become a great and excellent king,
and possess many estimable qualities and much energy of
purpose.’ But the astrologer’s son turned a deaf ear to all
his father had told him, and continued leading a debauched
life. On hearing the advice given by the astrologer to his
son, the princess felt much the loss of her husband.
Throughout the whole of that day she was ruminating on
her sad condition ; and, what with grief for the loss of a
husband she dearly loved, and the other attendant considera-
tions, she found it impossible to rest that night when she
retired to bed. She rose, after in vain trying to sleep, and
paced up and down the room, in a state of feverish anxiety
for something she could not well define. At last she
involuntarily took hold of a vessel filled with water, and
having poured some into the palm of her hand, said,
‘ What bitter cause have I not to curse the author of so
much injury to me,—he who was instrumental in killing my
husband, or depriving me of him, however that might have
been done !’ The water deities at this moment made their
appearance before the princess, whom they found just
as we have described, with the water in her palm and her