The sun was about to set, and people were busy packing their belongings in the small town market. This town was in a region of India called Mawardi. The entire population of the town did not exceed three hundred people, including both men and women. The inhabitants of this town were all hunters, and they had no other occupation that surpassed hunting. They knew the forests in their region well, just as they were skilled in their hunting trade.

The original inhabitants of Mawardi did not always stay in one place; they were often in the forest, preparing for various hunting competitions. Whoever won the competition would be given all the wealth gathered from the forest and tasked with selling it in the main market in the city of Hindu. Therefore, the winner's profit would always be the highest.

The people of the Mawardi tribe were few in number in the country of India, but they were fortunate and successful in everything they pursued. This made them more prosperous than other tribes in trading animal skins and other parts of wild animals needed for medicine or rituals. This prosperity led them to establish a town in a region just outside the city of Hindu, and they ceased to distance themselves too far from the city.

It hadn't even been a year since they founded the town of Mawardi before traders and wealthy merchants turned it into a major hub for the trade of wild animal skins. As a result, grand buildings were being constructed, and the town was being adorned with contemporary amenities of that time.

The king of this town of Mawardi was a young man not older than forty, who had inherited the throne from his father. He had one wife named Rasina and a seven-year-old daughter called Lashmin.

From the age of four, Lashmin’s father began teaching her how to hunt in the forest. He trained her in bravery and helped her overcome her fear of the forest and all its dangers. By the time she was seven, she was performing incredible feats that even her father had not achieved at her age. At seven, she would sneak into the forest alone to hunt, returning with dead antelopes or wild boars that she had killed with her own hands. Initially, she would hunt for a day, but it soon became that she could spend three days alone in the forest, hunting and returning home safely.

When Lashmin's father heard of her remarkable achievements, he doubted the stories and decided to accompany her to the forest to witness her hunting skills firsthand.

With this plan in mind, the three of them including her mother  packed provisions, mounted three horses, and set out from the town of Mawardi into the forest with excitement and joy.