Ratnamala

Simhakethu, the ruler of Kancheepuram, is on the lookout for a suitable bridegroom for his daughter, Rathnamala. The king of Sonapura is blessed with a son, but with the curse, to survive, before it reaches the 16th month the child should be married to a 16-year-old girl. His minister goes on a bride hunt and shows them his own son's portrait and not that of the child prince. She agrees to marry him but the minister says that, according to tradition, her marriage has to be performed with a sword.