Having pronounced this curse on the Raja, he came to his father and took the snake from his neck, and began to say to him, “Father, be of good cheer, I have pronounced a curse on him, who threw the dead snake on your neck.” On hearing this, Lomus the saint, awaking from his meditation, opening his eyes and deeply considering in his mind his son’s speech, said to him, “O son! what is this thou hast done? why have you pronounced a curse on the Raja, under whose government we lived at ease? not a bird, nor a beast even was afflicted. So just was the government, that the lion and cow dwelt under it without altercation. O son! what mattered it, if he, in whose country we lived, threw a dead snake upon me in sport, why did you curse him, and inflict so heavy a curse for a slight fault? you have been guilty of a great crime, and neglected to think of what you were doing--you have abandoned good, and embraced evil. It is necessary for a good man to cultivate amiable dispositions; not to say anything himself, to hear what others say, and imitate the good qualities, and avoid the bad qualities, of all.” Saying this, Lomus the saint called one of his pupils, and told him to go and tell the Raja Pureechit, that Shringee had pronounced a curse on him; good men will impute blame to Shringee for what he has done, but the Raja on receiving this message will be on his guard. In obedience to the words of his spiritual preceptor, the pupil came to the place where the Raja was sitting in meditation, and said to him on his arrival--“Shringee the saint has pronounced this curse on you, that the snake shall bite you on the seventh day--do you now arrange so that you may escape from the noose of fate.” On hearing this, the Raja stood up with delight, and joining his hands together began to say, “The saint has done me a great kindness in pronouncing a curse, because I had fallen into the boundless thoughted sea of delusion, from which he has released me.” When the disciple of the sage departed, the Raja performed penance by abandoning all the pleasures of the world, and having sent for Junmejye and made over his throne to him, said, “O son! cherish the cow and the Brahmin, and give contentment to the subject.” Saying this, he went into the female apartments: the women on seeing him were all sad; his wives (the Ranees) on beholding him fell weeping at his feet, and exclaimed, “O great king! we weak creatures will not be able to endure separation from you; for which reason it is better that we should give up our lives with yours.”--The Raja said in reply, “It is right for a woman to act in such a way, that the character and dignity of her husband may be maintained, and not to throw any obstacle in the way of an excellent work.”