Publisher's Synopsis
There was a king who had two queens, Duo and Suo.1 Both of them were childless.
One day a Faquir (mendicant) came to the palace-gate to ask for alms. The Suo queen
went to the door with a handful of rice. The mendicant asked whether she had any children.
On being answered in the negative, the holy mendicant refused to take alms,
as the hands of a woman unblessed with child are regarded as ceremonially unclean.
He offered her a drug for removing her barrenness, and she expressing her willingness to receive it, he gave it to her with the following directions: -"Take this nostrum,
swallow it with the juice of the pomegranate flower; if you do this, you will have a son in due time
