The three women had the same dream where Lord Shiva told them about their son.
The three women were thrilled to find gold coins under the pillow of Putraka every morning and realized that Lord Shiva had indeed blessed them and their son.
After that, the entire family lived luxuriously.
The three women gave away a lot of the wealth in charity.
It so happened that Putraka became a great king because of the fortune that he had accumulated in his short life.
Yagnadatta told Putraka about his father and uncles who had gone away to the world on account of a famine.
Yagnadatta asked Putraka to give more alms so that Putraka's father and uncles would hear of this and they would come back. In connection with this, Yagnadatta told Putraka the story of Brahmadatta.
In the Kingdom of Baneras, King Brahmadatta saw a pair of swans flying in the night sky. The two swans were golden in colour and seemed like a flash of lightning surrounded by the other dull white swans.
King Brahmadatta had a beautiful tank in his garden so that the golden swans could come and rest there. There the king could see the swans for however, long he wished after
The swans eventually came to the tank.
When the king went to the tank, the swans told the king that they told the King that in their previous birth, they had been fighting over the offering in the temple of Lord Shiva. The birds further told the king that alms had been offered in the temple of Lord Shiva. The two birds had been fighting over it and had fallen dead there. That was the reason they were born as golden swans.
After having told this story to Putraka, Yagnadatta told Putraka to give away alms so that Putraka’s father and uncles would come back.
Wonders of wonders, Putraka’s father and the uncles did come back.
On seeing the wealth of Putraka, the three wicked men decided to do away with the king and take over the entire kingdom.
The three men decided to murder Putraka. They asked Putraka to go to the temple of Goddess Durga. There the three men employed an assassin who would kill Putraka.
However, Putraka saw the assassins and talked them out of this plan. He even got the assassins to tell him whom they were working for.
Putraca offered the assassins more money and even gave the assassins his priceless jeweled ornament in return for sparing his life.
Putraka told the assassins to lie to the three men that they had done away with the king, because Putraka was disgusted with his father and uncles and he did not plan on returning to this kingdom after this.
The assassin agreed to this and they went away.
However, after this incident, when Putraka’s father and uncles decided to take over the throne, Putraka’s father and uncles were killed as traitors by the ministers of King Putraka.
Adapted from the Katha Sarith Sagara
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