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all we three are restored to our shapes and our kingdom. This is 

 the first thing we must do : to all those who have unmarried daugh- 

 ters let enough be given for arraying their daughters with orna- 

 ments and getting them married ; and let them eat, drink, cook, and 

 dress their food from our palace as long as they live. And let the 

 daughters of all the land be never deprived of their husbands, and 

 let them not wear any but red-dyed clothes, and let doors of gold 

 and silver, like the mixing of G-anga and Jamna, be set up in the 

 houses ; and on the roofs of the houses let ttkas of saffron and the 

 sandal wood be applied, and let models of all the hills in our country 

 be made of gold and silver and set up opposite one another, and let 

 the locks of the ugly shrews who are too surly to ask, be filled with 

 rows of pearls, and let the thickets and hills be covered with flowers 

 and festive wreaths, and let these wreaths be suspended so as to 

 serve for a covering from this kingdom to that ; and let there not 



