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was to keep her word she should accede to his request. She 
then told him that it would be so in another birth. After this 
he committed suicide by throwing himself down from a tree at 
Prayaga (the junction of the Sindh river with the Jhelum near 
Sadipur) in the hope of taking a fresh birth in union with the 
goddess. He was born as Ranaditya and she as Rana-rambha. 
The latter was found floating in the ocean by the king of the 
Cholas (Tanjore) named Ratisena, who picked her up and 
nourished her. When she was grown up, several kings asked 
for her hand but Ratisena would not consent. Randaditya also 
sent his minister for this girl and Ratisena was about to give 
his refusal when Rana-rambha declared to him that this king 
should be her husband. She then related to him the whole 
story of her origin and thereupon Ratisena sent her to the 
residence of one of his friends, the king of Kuluta (Kulu) where 
the nuptials were to be celebrated. Ranaditya went to Kulu 
and married her, As she could not touch a mortal, she never 
touched him. She used to deceive the king by keeping in bed 
a phantom woman resembling herself and would herself go out 
at night in the form of a bee. 
as it represented Sakti alone without Siva. Siva then put 
together into a lump. all the jewels brought as marriage 
hands Ravana who used to worship them at Lanka 
(Ceylon) and after his being killed by Rama were carried away 
by the monkeys to the Himalayas. These beasts after satisfy- 
ing their curiosity dropped them into the Uttara-manasa 
(Gangabal) lake.’’ The queen further said—‘‘ | have already 
ext morning the king’s happiness knew no bounds to see 
them come just in time, and he began first to consecrate the 
Ranesvara Siva-linga when the image of Ranasvamin, through 
