The marriages of Kattayya with Sethu, and Sasivarnam with Ahilandam were held with no pomposity. The king had invited a few, but there were about two hundred people altogether at the ceremony followed by a small meals to all the guests including the soldiers at the palace of Ramanathapuram. The priests of Ramanathapuram were really in angry at this simple marriages and that too not in their big temples, but in an insignificant kali goddess verandah. They heard that a Tamil poet was invited to hand over the yellow threats to affirm the ceremony. Lakshmi proudly looked at the king and smiled. "What a great personality was this king? A simple man, and who knows the difficulties of his subjects". While she was thinking about it, she could not understand the plot being concocted to poiso

