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KING OF DARK CHAMBER
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Kanchi

A daughter may stay in her father's home only so long as she remains unmarried.

Messenger

But her connections with her father's family remain intact still.

Kanchi

She has abjured all such relations now.

Messenger

Such relationship can never be abjured, Your Highness, on this side of death: it may remain in abeyance at times, but can never be wholly broken up.

Kanchi

If the King chooses not to give up his daughter to me on peaceful terms, our Kshatriya code of righteous-