The ocean of story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's ...

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"
Her mother promised her to me originally." The assessors
"
said to : Ityaka While the father is alive, what authority has
the mother ? Moreover, where is your witness to prove the
fact of the mother having promised her to you ? So she is,
with regard to you, the wife of another, villain !
" When
Ityaka was thus put to silence by the assessors, the Emperor
Naravahanadatta, being angry with him, ordered his immediate
execution, on the ground of his misconduct. But
the good hermits, with Kasyapa at their head, came and
entreated him, saying :
" Forgive now this one fault of his :
for he is the son of Madanavega, and therefore your brother-
in-law." So the king was at last induced to spare his life,
and let him off with a severe reprimand.
And he reunited that son of his maternal uncle, Avanti-
vardhana, to his wife, and sent them off with their ministers
to their own city, in the care of Vayupatha.