Nala is a prince; Damayanti a princess (daughter of King Bhima)
Nala catches a bird, who offers to talk him up to Damayanti if set free; Nala agrees, bird does; Damayanti reciprocates
Time for Dama to pick her suitor, all princes from across the land gather to try to be chosen, including 4 gods; gods tell Nala to go tell Dama to pick between them, he does, she says she still picks Nala; gods make themselves appear as Nala, distressing Dama; they feel bad and reveal themselves, give Nala gifts and abilities
Evil god Kali consorts with Pushkari, Nala's brother; challenge Nala to a game of rigged dice; he loses everything; they are outcast into the forest; Nala begs Dama to leave him and return to her father but she will not; he decides he must leave her for her own good; he runs away in the night; she tries to find him, is caught by snake; rescued by hunter
Travels through forest; comes across a hermitage, where the hermits tell her everything will be okay; prays to a tree that ends sorrows; meets merchants, hangs with them for a while, eventually blamed for elephant stampede; finally finds shining city, greeted by king's mother, invited to stay
Lala finds snake that bites him with venom to torture demon in his soul, tells him to go to city and live in disguise as charioteer
Dama returned to her father, hears rumor of Nala as charioteer, holds second festival to find love
Nala's raja hears about festival and has Nala take him there; raja has gift of numbers, which he gives to Nala, which frees him of Kali
Nala goes to Damayanti, reveals himself; they travel back to their city with Bhima's army, Pushkari gives it back
Kayla, I don't understand why you are doing work from Week 13 right now; you can use that next Fall if you want, of course... please write me back and let me know your plans; I am really confused by why you are posting this late work here now, and if you want me to find room for you in that Fall class, you need to let me know.
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