Tripura Rahasya

Hemalekha continued,

• He grew up to be a very restless young fellow, fully inheriting his father's dullness and his grandmother's wickedness and creativeness. This boy, Master Inconstant by name, was brought up and trained by his father, Mr. Fool and his grandmother Madam Ignorance, and he became skilled in their ways. He could negotiate the most difficult places with perfect ease and surmount obstacles in a trice.
• My friend, entrusting her son Master Inconstant to me, was always in the company of her lover.
• Mr. Inconstant grew up in my care and in due course married a wife with his mother's approval.
• Unsteady by name, she was ever restless and changeful and could put on different forms to please her husband's whim.
• She bore him five sons who were devoted to their parents. each one was skilled in his own way. They were also entrusted to my care by my friend.

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Excerpts from Chapter 5, Tripura Rahasya