[Enter the DOORKEEPER]
SUDARSHANA.
Who are you?
DOORKEEPER.
I am the porter of this palace.
SUDARSHANA.
Tell me quickly what you have got to say.
DOORKEEPER.
Our King has been taken prisoner.
SUDARSHANA.
Prisoner? O Mother Earth! [Faints.]
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[KING OF KANCHI and SUVARNA]
SUVARNA.
You say, then, that there will be no more necessity of any fight amongst yourselves?
KANCHI.
No, you need not be afraid. I have made all the princes agree that he whom the Queen accepts as her husband will have her, and the others will have to abandon all further struggle.