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King ?” When the King’s soldiers came to take her and heard
her screaming and acting in a such a weird manner, they left
her and went away. The prostitute’s workers got her back but
her behavior did not change. The prostitute thought that it
was dangerous to keep her in the house. She thought “What
if she harmed anyone ?” Thus out of fear, she threw her out
of the house. Thus, Narmada Sundari freed herself by fooling
the prostitute but not by killing her.

Rati Sundari, Buddhi Sundari, Rushi Sundari, Guna Sundari,
etc. are same Mahasatis who cheated and betrayed people’s
trust to save their character but they did not do so by harming
others. But Kamlata first succumbed to temptations and then
cruelly killed the King.

While leaving the Chakra on Ravana, Lakshmana’s heart
became tough, but if he had taken Ravana into his confidence,
embraced him and then cunningly stabbed him in the back,
his intentions would have been all the more wicked. When
betrayal gets mixed with murder, the cruel intentions increase
manifold.

Breach of trust is a terrible cruelty.

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