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Ban! Ketaki, greatly vexed at her mother on this account, arose 

 and departed, and ate nothing the whole day. "When the Raja sent 

 for her, she said that she had no appetite. " And have you heard 

 what is the matter ?" cried Rani Kamlata, " Tour daughter has been 

 asking for the ashes which the Guru gave us, to play at blindman's 

 buff with. I refused to give it, and told her that it was not a thing 

 to be played with, but that the Guru had given it against evil days. 

 At this she became displeased with me. I amused and coaxed her, 

 but she would not heed." "What are ashes?" said the Raja. 

 " She is dearer than my very life. What is one life, if she may be 

 amused for an hour ? If I had a myriad of lives, they should be de- 

 voted to her." So he gave Rani Ketaki a little of the ashes out of the 

 box. Several days she continued playing at blindman's-buff with 

 her attendants, in presence of her mother and father, and diverted 

 them all. Of the hundreds of trays of pearls which she bestowed, 



