Now that the two princes had been successful in their battles and had expanded their kingdom, many vassals of the king Parityaganesa accompanied the two princes in their future battles.
The King through his messenger had been about to send a congratulatory message to his princes and that was when Queen Kavyalankara showed what she was capable of.
She bribed the ministerial scribe and asked him to write a letter pretending to be from the king. The letter was addressed to a vassal of King Parityaganesa to the effect that the two sons were becoming exceedingly proud of themselves and had to be stopped at all counts. The forged letter read that King Parityaganesa wanted the vassal to kill the two princes.
After getting the letter written, Kavyalankara bribed the messenger to carry this letter along with the congratulatory message to deliver the same to one of the vassals accompanying the princes.
All went according to plan and the vassal received the ‘letter’ from Parityaganesa asking him to kill the two princes.
The vassal was shocked when he read this, but he could not find any proof of any deceit in the letter.
Finally having no choice, the vassal decided to do as the king had ordered him to do.
However, Prathamasangama, the king’s minister and the grandfather of the two princes, came to know what the vassal had been about to do.
Adapted from the Katha Sarith Sagara
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