All Puhär celebrated it with pomp and splendor. There then came the festival sacred to Indra, the God of Heaven. Kövalan having fallen in love with her, left his home and lived with the courtesan until he had wasted upon her the whole of his wealth. One day when Kövalau was passing through the busy streets of Puhär, he happened to cast his eyes upon Madavi, a charming courtesan of the city, who had just won her laurels from the king of the land. Soon separate establishment was set up for them and the young couple spent some time together happily. Their parents had them married according to the fire-rites prescribed in Vedic literature. At their respective ages of sixteen and twelve. The son went by the name of Kövalan, and the daughter by that of Kannaki. there lived in the city of Puhar, which was the capital city of the great Karikalaccolan, two merchant princes who had respectively a son and a daughter. In the fifties of the second century A.D.
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