The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram was a brave, resolute and a firm ruler of his state. When he was born the astrologers predicted his death with a tiger. But the new bom baby had some miraculous quality in him. He was only of ten days, he challenged the prediction of the astrologers and asked then the manner of his death. The chief astrologer told his death from a tiger.

When the king came of the age, he took over the charge in his hands. He also heard the prediction through his own ears. He killed a tiger and sent for the astrologer who in turn advocated that it did not mean that the king was safe. He must be careful from the hundredth tiger. So the king decided to kill one hundred tigers. In the first ten years he killed seventy tigers of his forests. Then he married a Princess whose father had a lot of tigers in the forest. There he killed all the tigers and their number came to be ninety-nine. The king was deeply disturbed for the hundredth tiger. Somehow his dewan arranged for the hundredth tiger. The king was happy and shot at it. The tiger collapsed but did not die. The king was ignorant about this reality. Later on it was killed by his soldiers. In this way the king achieved his target of killing a hundred tigers.