Both the friends came out of that temple. From inside, a female voice said, “Kandamara! Awful!” called that. “Mother is calling me, stay here! I will come here" and said, Kandhamaran went inside. Vandiyathevan heard the women's voices as if they were asking questions one after the other, and when Gandhamaran responded by knocking. Then came the sound of the girls laughing uproariously from inside.

The thought that they were laughing and mocking him like that made Vandiyathevan feel ashamed and angry. When Kandhamaran came out, he held Vandiyathevan's hand and said, “Come! Let's take a look around our mansion!” He dragged him away saying that.

Kandhamaran showed Vandiyathevan the moon enclosures of the Kadampur Palace, dance halls, commercial roads, marble halls, dome towers, stupa caskets and horse stables.

In between Vandiyathevan said, “Kandamara! When you stopped me at the door of that temple and went back in, there was only laughter and laughter in that temple, what's so special? Are they so happy to see your friend?” He asked.

"They were all happy to see you. Mother and others like you. But they are not laughing at you…”

"Then why are you laughing?".

“Isn't there a waiter? After all these years he is newly married to a young lady. He has brought her here by keeping her in Mudupallak. But instead of sending her to that place, he locked her in his hostel! A nurse who came to look at the woman through the computer described her beauty. Laugh about it! They dispute whether she is a Sinhalese girl, a Kalinga girl, or a Chera girl! Don't you know that Paluvettaraiyar's ancestors came to Tamil Nadu from Chera country?”

“I have been asked why, you have said it before. Let it be, Kandhamara! How long has it been since Paluvetaraiyar married this mysterious beauty Mangai?”

“It will be within two years; He never leaves her alone even for a moment after marriage! Wherever he goes, he takes the heroine of desire with him. There is a bit of banter going on all over the country about this. Come! It would be a little easier for everyone if this kind of female subjugation happens to those who have crossed a praya?”.

“The reason is nothing. Shall I tell you the real reason, shall I? Women are always a bit jealous. Don't think I'm saying anything less about the women of your house! This is the world of women! The women of your family are dark and beautiful. She is as blonde as Chekkach Sevel, the heroine of Paluvettaraiyar's desire. So they don't like her! Because of that they make up some other story!…”.

to be continue……………………………………………………………