Reading Notes: Nala Damayanti The Steadfast Lovers

• Damayanti is extremely devoted to Nala.  Leaves kids behind to be with husband
• Why would Nala leave her?  He surely intends to come back right?
• Why does Nala not use the magic cloak to tell Damayanti of his plan to win back the kingdom? Why does he have to let her believe he left her?
• Damayanti refuses to go with strange man.  Reminds me of Rama and Sita.  Damayanti must have been worried that if she went with the stranger, Nala would assume she was impure and would leave her
• The Riddle: "A King ran away.  In dust the jewel lay.  Why he ran away, the jewel could not say." Nala's answer: "Can a King without a crown, keep a jewel for his own?" 
• Damayanti is Nala's Jewel and he didn't feel worthy of her since he lost his crown and all they had
• Devotion pays off!

(Nala leaving Damayanti while she sleeps, found on Wikipedia Commons.)

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Bibliogrpahy:
Nala Damayanti, The steadfast Lovers, by Anant Pai, Kindle Edition