on reaching her home the brahmani told her parents of her meeting with her husband, and what a valuable piece of paper he had given her; but not liking to go before the king herself, she sent one of her relations. the king read the paper, and ordering the man to be flogged, dismissed him. the next morning the brahmani took the paper, and while she was going along the road to the darbar reading it, the king's son met her, and asked what she was reading, whereupon she replied that she held in her hands a paper containing certain bits of advice, for which she wanted a lac of rupees. the prince asked her to show it to him, and when he had read it gave her a parwana for the amount, and rode on. the poor brahmani was very thankful. that day she laid in a great store of provisions, sufficient to last them all for a long time.