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There was a prince in India named
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One day, her pet deer escaped into the forest. and both
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Seeing Yama deprive her lord's life, she questioned and argued with him about his authority to deal with a lady of spotless chastity and affection. Yama alternately appealed to her, threatened her, and even opened up the scenes of hell with its terrors and dire punishments. But nothing daunted her;
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visited the kingdom and strongly prevailed upon them to have a matrimonial alliance with
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Three days before the fateful moment, she commenced her fast and went into the forest with her Lord, where he would hew wood. When the sun reached the zenith, Satyavanta complained of a headache and fell down. Within minutes,
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of the young man whom she saw in the dream and intimated the fact to her companion. Eventually she got her deer back, but she could not forget
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