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339. The Prince Who Kidnapped The Princess

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, he had in his service a Brahmin who professed to judge the quality of swords. He had a flat nose. And the king called in the surgeons and had him fitted with a false tip to his nose which was cunningly painted like a real nose; and then the Brahmin resumed his duties again about the king. Now Brahmadatta had no son, only a daughter and a nephew, whom he had brought up under his own eye. And when these two grew up, they fell in love with one another. So the king sent for his councilors and said to them, “My nephew is heir to the throne. If I give him my daughter in marriage, he shall be anointed king.”